From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Cc: Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] lpfc: Deprecate lpfc_soft_wwn parameter
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 23:41:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161229074109.GA3322@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9fa4cfd-9a16-de65-ab71-65369791a29c@broadcom.com>
Hi James,
in Linux we have a pretty clear policy to avoid breaking existing real
life userspace. Given that Sebastian (and probably other users as well)
make use of the soft WWN feature we can't just remove it.
Which btw is what this patch does - deprecating is telling people to
not use if, with the hopes of removing it in the future. I think it
would be fine to deprecate it with your above rational and print a
warning to the kernel log, but we can't simply remove it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-29 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-19 23:07 [PATCH v2 03/11] lpfc: Deprecate lpfc_soft_wwn parameter James Smart
2016-12-20 13:36 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-12-22 22:00 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2016-12-23 16:44 ` James Smart
2016-12-28 18:38 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2016-12-29 4:45 ` James Smart
2016-12-29 7:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-12-29 18:17 ` James Smart
2016-12-29 23:31 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2016-12-30 15:21 ` James Smart
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