From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932528AbWHLOQT (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:16:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932526AbWHLOP6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:15:58 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:32471 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964835AbWHLOPy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:15:54 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] unlink: monitor i_nlink Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:15:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Dave Hansen , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060809165729.FE36B262@localhost.localdomain> <1155143839.19249.151.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809112740.a964e5a2.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060809112740.a964e5a2.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608121615.47877.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:c48f057754fc1b1a557605ab9fa6da41 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 09 August 2006 20:27, Andrew Morton wrote: > struct inode { >         ... >         union { >                 unsigned int i_nlink; >                 unsigned int i_nlink_use_the_accessors_please; >         } >         ... > }; > > then, when everything in-tree is migrated, remove `i_nlink'. You can also mark a union member deprecated: struct inode { ... union { unsigned int __deprecated i_nlink; unsigned int i_nlink_use_the_accessors_please; } ... }; So gcc will warn about any newly introduced users. Arnd <><