From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262911AbTDII1i (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 04:27:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262914AbTDII1i (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 04:27:38 -0400 Received: from 237.oncolt.com ([213.86.99.237]:63705 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262911AbTDII1h (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 04:27:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] compatmac is not needed From: David Woodhouse To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk In-Reply-To: <200304081725.h38HPeSV012611@hera.kernel.org> References: <200304081725.h38HPeSV012611@hera.kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1049877554.31462.24.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5.dwmw2) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 09:39:15 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 17:42, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > ChangeSet 1.1089, 2003/04/08 09:42:06-07:00, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk > > [PATCH] compatmac is not needed Er, compatmac is there to make new code work in older kernels. The only concession we have to make for compatibility in the actual code is that #include, and we put all the ugliness into compatmac.h which makes it work in older kernels. So compatmac.h ends up _empty_ in the latest kernel, but that doesn't mean it's not needed. Please don't break stuff just for the sake of it. -- dwmw2