From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: dlezcano@fr.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/1][RFC] add a private field to the sock structure
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:40:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070830.224049.35665219.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070829191831.GA16184@ghostprotocols.net>
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:31 -0300
> Nah, it still there, sk_protinfo, its just ax25 that uses it
> (nudge(Ralf)). How do we state that a struct field is deprecated and
> will be removed soon(tm)?
You get rid of all the in-tree users and then just kill it :)
More seriously, I don't think we need a deprecation schedule
for a struct member, either it's not used in-tree anymore or
it isn't. We'll go crazy with any other policy and it's
difficult enough shrinking these things :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-29 16:41 [patch 0/1][RFC] add a private field to the sock structure dlezcano
2007-08-29 16:41 ` [patch 1/1][RFC] " dlezcano
2007-08-29 18:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-29 18:23 ` [patch 0/1][RFC] " David Miller
2007-08-29 19:18 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2007-08-29 21:15 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-08-31 5:40 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-08-31 11:26 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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