Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:50:30 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20061209.135030.112606922.davem@davemloft.net>
To: stefan@loplof.de
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       joseph@codesourcery.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:58:01 +0100 (MET)

> But when even glibc needs internal compat headers to compile with the second 
> kernel version that provides userspace headers, what is the long-term - even 
> mid-term - perspective of make headers_install then?

Relax Stefan, I'll make sure these macros never go away.

They may emit warnings, via __attribute__((deprecated)), at
some point, but they will never be flat out removed.
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