From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758366AbWLIVt2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:49:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758397AbWLIVt2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:49:28 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:59584 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758366AbWLIVt1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:49:27 -0500 Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:49:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20061209.134928.78719042.davem@davemloft.net> To: tgraf@suug.ch Cc: stefan@loplof.de, drow@false.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, joseph@codesourcery.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20061209125533.GO8693@postel.suug.ch> References: <20061209103953.GN8693@postel.suug.ch> <200612091249.39302.stefan@loplof.de> <20061209125533.GO8693@postel.suug.ch> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Thomas Graf Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 13:55:33 +0100 > The point is to stop new applications from using the interface which has > resulted in buggy code in the past. You don't get people to use new interface by breaking the build on them in userspace. You get them to do it by making suggestions and informing them, not by forcing them. That's why 1) you can't get rid of these macros, ever, but 2) you can warn them by using inline functions and depcrecated attribute tags.