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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] delete seven tty headers
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:53:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120611135306.537757d2@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD5E7B8.1020502@suse.cz>

> I agree (I wrote I doubt there are any users at all). But I would prefer
> going through the deprecation phase (adding a #warning) anyway. Removing
> the headers completely in a year, or maybe sooner is OK then.

I really see no point. Distributions are going to build against a set of
headers generated from a kernel, once at the time the distribution is
first assembled (eg the kernel-headers package in Fedora).

> I think this is too late. Distros would find this out after months and
> there will be no reason to re-add empty headers and backport them to
> stable trees in between at that time...

If it takes months to find out then they were not needed 8)

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-11 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-08  8:56 [PATCH] delete seven tty headers Paul Bolle
2012-06-08  9:19 ` Alan Cox
2012-06-08 11:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-06-08 11:41   ` Paul Bolle
2012-06-08 14:03     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-06-11 12:42       ` Jiri Slaby
2012-06-11 12:53         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-06-11 23:40           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-06-11 23:42             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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