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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] more ftape removal
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> This patch removes some more ftape code.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
>> this affects userspace exported headers, so I'm not sure we want to kill
>> that. even if the interface is gone is current kernels, people might
>> want to build binaries against these headers that work on older kernels.
>
> Can you be more specific?
>
> Building ftape-utils has already been broken by you removing four
> userspace exported ftape headers in your ftape removal patch.

One would expect that to break. I'm more concerned about things like
util-linux or mt-st.

But you're right, we should probably remove everything at a set.

Jeff



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