Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262497AbVAEQEC (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:04:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262474AbVAEQDH (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:03:07 -0500 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:49045 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262498AbVAEPzh (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:55:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:55:29 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Andrew Morton , 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: <20050105155529.GA2721@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Andrew Morton , 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 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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1056 Lines: 24 On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:19:16PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Christoph Hellwig 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. It's 72 callers in mainline. Aka 72 new warnings for an allmodconfig build. This isn't reasonable just because the interface got out of fashion. - 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/