Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:19:16 +0100 |
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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.
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