From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: [patch 0/1][RFC] add a private field to the sock structure Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:26:20 -0300 Message-ID: <20070831112620.GA2532@ghostprotocols.net> References: <20070829164114.868188182@f002726.toulouse-stg.fr.ibm.com> <20070829.112316.98862875.davem@davemloft.net> <20070829191831.GA16184@ghostprotocols.net> <20070830.224049.35665219.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dlezcano@fr.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.225]:49446 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753955AbXHaL0a (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:26:30 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 36so535801wra for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070830.224049.35665219.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Em Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:40:49PM -0700, David Miller escreveu: > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo > 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 :-) OK, I think its enough to say to dlezcano that he should avoid using sk_protinfo, as soon as we do the work on AX.25 sk_protinfo will be removed. - Arnaldo