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From: Shmulik Hen <shmulik.hen@intel.com>
To: "Chad N. Tindel" <chad@tindel.net>
Cc: bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	bonding-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
	"Noam, Amir" <amir.noam@intel.com>,
	"Mendelson, Tsippy" <tsippy.mendelson@intel.com>,
	"Noam, Marom" <noam.marom@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Bonding-announce] [PATCH SET][bonding] cleanup
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:11:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309252011.53960.shmulik.hen@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030925164719.GA45241@calma.pair.com>

On Thursday 25 September 2003 07:47 pm, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> > patch 4 - remove dead code, old compatibility stuff and redundant
> >           checks.
>
> I'm a bit concerned about doing some of this stuff in the 2.4
> series.  That compatibility stuff is there for a reason, and was
> set to be removed in 2.6.  Perhaps we shouldn't be doing stuff this
> drastic until 2.6 because of the risk of breaking users.

That's the word I got from Jay in response to the " [Kernel-janitors] 
old ioctl definitions in 2.5" thread.

>Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>	I was going to add it on to the end of the clean up set, but
> if you want to do it, go ahead.  Nobody seems to have objected to
> removing the _OLD stuff, which I view as a good thing.

-- 
| Shmulik Hen   Advanced Network Services  |
| Israel Design Center, Jerusalem          |
| LAN Access Division, Platform Networking |
| Intel Communications Group, Intel corp.  |

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-25 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-25 12:49 [PATCH SET][bonding] cleanup Shmulik Hen
2003-09-25 16:22 ` Jay Vosburgh
2003-09-25 16:47 ` [Bonding-announce] " Chad N. Tindel
2003-09-25 17:11   ` Shmulik Hen [this message]
2003-09-25 17:33     ` Jay Vosburgh
2003-09-25 17:43       ` Shmulik Hen
2003-09-25 21:13       ` Chad N. Tindel
2003-10-05 22:28         ` Willy TARREAU
2003-10-12 15:48 ` [PATCH SET][bonding 2.4] cleanup - take 3 Shmulik Hen

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