From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263448AbTDIQbs (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:31:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263556AbTDIQbs (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:31:48 -0400 Received: from meg.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.57]:29641 "EHLO meg.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263448AbTDIQbq (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:31:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:03:27 +0200 From: Ingo Oeser To: David Woodhouse Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] compatmac is not needed Message-ID: <20030409180327.K626@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <200304081725.h38HPeSV012611@hera.kernel.org> <1049877554.31462.24.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <1049877554.31462.24.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:39:15AM +0100 X-Spam-Score: -32.5 (--------------------------------) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *193IfV-0003A6-00*SS87xs9vx2.* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:39:15AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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 > > 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. So this is still a valid API? Good to know. What I don't know: Can it be product specific? So the net people ship a version for new networking APIs and filesystem people ship new filesystem methods along with their filesystem support. Reason I ask: There are many such frameworks floating around, but none was complete. Many miss BUG_ON(), likely()/unlikely(), seq_file support and many more interesting stuff. Regards Ingo Oeser -- Marketing ist die Kunst, Leuten Sachen zu verkaufen, die sie nicht brauchen, mit Geld, was sie nicht haben, um Leute zu beeindrucken, die sie nicht moegen.