Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262457AbVAEPDT (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:03:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262458AbVAEPDT (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:03:19 -0500 Received: from mail.mellanox.co.il ([194.90.237.34]:8533 "EHLO mtlex01.yok.mtl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262457AbVAEPDP (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:03:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:03:10 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , mingo@elte.hu, rlrevell@joe-job.com, tiwai@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz, discuss@x86-64.org, gordon.jin@intel.com, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion Message-ID: <20050105150310.GA19758@mellanox.co.il> Reply-To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" References: <20041215065650.GM27225@wotan.suse.de> <20041217014345.GA11926@mellanox.co.il> <20050105144043.GB19434@mellanox.co.il> <20050105144603.GA1419@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050105144603.GA1419@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1060 Lines: 26 Hello! Quoting r. Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org) "Re: [PATCH] deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion": > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Hello, Andrew, all! > > > > Since in -mm1 we now have a race-free replacement (that being ioctl_compat), > > here is a patch to deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion. > > Sorry, but this is a lot too early. Once there's a handfull users left > in _mainline_ you can start deprecating it (or better remove it completely). I dont know. So how will people know they are supposed to convert then? > So far we have a non-final version of the replacement in -mm and no single > user converted. Christoph, I know you want to remove the inode parameter :) Otherwise I think -mm1 has the final version of the replacement. MST - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/