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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	law@redhat.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] posix_types.h: Cleanup stale __NFDBITS and related definitions
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:33:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120726013322.GB3532@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120726012713.GA2356@zod.bos.redhat.com>

Hi,

Josh Boyer wrote:

> Indeed.  However, I believe Linus pointed out that even before
> 8b3d1cda4f5f the macros that were removed weren't actually used.
> It's likely safe to go back further than just 3.4.
>
> I'll verify again in the morning and include the furthest back we could
> remove these.  For now, let's go with what you suggest to be safe.

I may be in the minority in having this view or missing a subtlety,
but shouldn't the question be the furthest back we need to remove
these rather than the furthest back we could?

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-25 14:40 Josh Boyer
2012-07-25 23:26 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-26  1:27   ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-26  1:33     ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-07-26  1:42       ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-26  3:34         ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-26  2:01     ` Ben Hutchings

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