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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: "Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
	Linux Filesystem Development List 
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ioctl-fat.2: new manpage for the ioctl fat API
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:10:52 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fvze24z.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgNAkjgChZ_R8Qbg29rHKdarV2rbwa2=rf7TgxniZOFePOW-A@mail.gmail.com> (Michael Kerrisk's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:55:55 +0100")

"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> writes:

>> Given that FAT ioctls are not widely used by applications, the
>> actual ABI (numeric constants) isn't changing, and the workaround
>> is simple, I'd expect that the time before deprecating the old
>> constants could be fairly short.
>
> True. And now that we're actually documenting this stuff, it would be
> a good time to make the change, so that the new names appear in the
> docs.
>
> Hirofumi, what do you think?

I have no strong opinion. I'm not sure whether it has value to change
this ancient stuff though. If someone wants to do, I have no objection
and will do ack.

Thanks.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

      reply	other threads:[~2015-02-03 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAKgNAkhuGYKtUKkm2+wU+TwQb6iZ+EmnLDdr4qg4fWHJyL9K5A@mail.gmail.com>
2015-01-23 19:54 ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2015-02-03  8:25   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-02-03  8:51     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2015-02-03  9:24       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-02-03  9:44         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2015-02-03  9:54           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-02-03 10:05             ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2015-02-03  8:49   ` Andreas Dilger
2015-02-03  9:21     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-02-03  9:48       ` Andreas Dilger
2015-02-03  9:55         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-02-03 10:10           ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]

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