From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161272AbWLPRY3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:24:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161273AbWLPRY3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:24:29 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:35104 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161272AbWLPRY2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:24:28 -0500 Message-ID: <45842BCB.1030506@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:24:27 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] more ftape removal References: <20061213130515.GB3851@stusta.de> <45842095.5040107@garzik.org> <20061216172213.GA10316@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20061216172213.GA10316@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.7 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> This patch removes some more ftape code. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk >> this affects userspace exported headers, so I'm not sure we want to kill >> that. even if the interface is gone is current kernels, people might >> want to build binaries against these headers that work on older kernels. > > Can you be more specific? > > Building ftape-utils has already been broken by you removing four > userspace exported ftape headers in your ftape removal patch. One would expect that to break. I'm more concerned about things like util-linux or mt-st. But you're right, we should probably remove everything at a set. Jeff