From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262469AbVAEPi1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:38:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262465AbVAEPiM (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:38:12 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:45497 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262475AbVAEPTV (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:19:21 -0500 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu, rlrevell@joe-job.com, tiwai@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz, discuss@x86-64.org, gordon.jin@intel.com, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion References: <20041215065650.GM27225@wotan.suse.de> <20041217014345.GA11926@mellanox.co.il> <20050105144043.GB19434@mellanox.co.il> <20050105144603.GA1419@infradead.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:19:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050105144603.GA1419@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:46:03 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> Hello, Andrew, all! >> >> Since in -mm1 we now have a race-free replacement (that being ioctl_compat), >> here is a patch to deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion. > > Sorry, but this is a lot too early. Once there's a handfull users left > in _mainline_ you can start deprecating it (or better remove it completely). There were never more than a handful users of it anyways. So I think Michael's suggestion to deprecate it early is very reasonable. > So far we have a non-final version of the replacement in -mm and no single > user converted. For me it looks quite final. -Andi