From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: OGAWA Hirofumi 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 Message-ID: <877fvze24z.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp> References: <1422042884-10824-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> <5984550D-1518-490C-9A3F-3F9B1FA2EA00@dilger.ca> <775BBA28-BEDF-4F53-A845-D11F4337026B@dilger.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Michael Kerrisk's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:55:55 +0100") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: Andreas Dilger , Heinrich Schuchardt , Linux Filesystem Development List , LKML , linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: OGAWA Hirofumi 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 Message-ID: <877fvze24z.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp> References: <1422042884-10824-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> <5984550D-1518-490C-9A3F-3F9B1FA2EA00@dilger.ca> <775BBA28-BEDF-4F53-A845-D11F4337026B@dilger.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Andreas Dilger , Heinrich Schuchardt , Linux Filesystem Development List , LKML , linux-man To: "Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Michael Kerrisk's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2015 10:55:55 +0100") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" 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