Re: Scheduled removals

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2009-01-12 05:32, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>> as per Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, some legacy code is ripe
>>> for removal. Now while pursuing this I wondered whether the struct definitions
>>> for the old code in the header files (e.g. in linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h)
>>> can also be removed or whether people will argue that doing so would
>>> unnecessarily cause dismay on behalf the potential users (of which there are
>>> not any). I am not aware of any users, and neither is Search Engine Google, so
>>> I'd just take the bait and kill it. Vetoes?
>> Every time I'm searching I do find some users of at least some
>> iptables headers. Maybe not this specific one, but that doesn't
>> mean much, fact is there might be users.
>>
>> That being said, I'd be fine removing both the functionality
>> and the headers after a sufficiently long period. I'm not
>> really confident that the period has indeed be long enough
>> though. When did we schedule this for removal?
> 
> January 2008.

OK, lets remove it in 2.6.30. At that point it should have been
almost 1.5 years, which seems to be enough.