Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: sys_mount cleanup | Date | 11 Jun 1999 20:33:29 -0700 |
| |
In article <linux.kernel.19990611203039.F1415@mencheca.ch.genedata.com>, Matthew Wilcox <Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com> wrote: > >Linux 1.0.0 had some backward compatibility with a sys_mount() which >expected only 3 arguments, not 5. Would anyone care very much if this >compatibility were to simply go away without warning in 2.3?
What's the advantage in doing this? From casually looking at the code, it looks like it will drop a whopping 64 instructions out of the kernel. Leave it in; it gives a nice piece of history, plus it won't bite people when they drag their ancient MCC setups out and load a 2.2 kernel over them.
____ david parsons \bi/ Beating a dead horse. \/
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |