From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:55:29 +0000 Message-ID: <20050105155529.GA2721@infradead.org> References: <20041215065650.GM27225@wotan.suse.de> <20041217014345.GA11926@mellanox.co.il> <20050105144043.GB19434@mellanox.co.il> <20050105144603.GA1419@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "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 List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:19:16PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. It's 72 callers in mainline. Aka 72 new warnings for an allmodconfig build. This isn't reasonable just because the interface got out of fashion.