From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: stefan@loplof.de
Cc: tgraf@suug.ch, 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
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:50:30 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061209.135030.112606922.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612091559.05232.stefan@loplof.de>
From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:58:01 +0100 (MET)
> But when even glibc needs internal compat headers to compile with the second
> kernel version that provides userspace headers, what is the long-term - even
> mid-term - perspective of make headers_install then?
Relax Stefan, I'll make sure these macros never go away.
They may emit warnings, via __attribute__((deprecated)), at
some point, but they will never be flat out removed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-09 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20061209103953.GN8693@postel.suug.ch>
2006-12-09 11:49 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-12-09 12:55 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-09 14:58 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-12-09 21:50 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-12-09 22:02 ` David Woodhouse
2006-12-12 11:23 ` David Woodhouse
2006-12-09 21:49 ` David Miller
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