To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       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
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	<20050105144603.GA1419@infradead.org>
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:19:16 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20050105144603.GA1419@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

> 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).

There were never more than a handful users of it anyways. So I think
Michael's suggestion to deprecate it early is very reasonable.

> So far we have a non-final version of the replacement in -mm and no single
> user converted.

For me it looks quite final.

-Andi
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