From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hch@infradead.org
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, a.beregalov@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 14:32:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090524.143207.59391234.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090523165531.GA14081@infradead.org>
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:55:31 -0400
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:41:43AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 May 2009 18:17:39 +0400
>> Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API
>> > and nobody uses old API anymore.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
>>
>> This go through the feature-removal-schedule process, to
>> allow other drivers that live outside the tree some notice for change.
>
> I don't think so. We do tons of API changes and don't do such a process
> around it. Removal of the old pointers gives a clear compilation
> breakage so it's not even dangerous.
I completely agree and plan to get rid of this compat ops stuff
for 2.6.31
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-24 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-23 14:17 [PATCH] net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS Alexander Beregalov
2009-05-23 14:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-23 15:12 ` [PATCH] Mark COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS option for removal Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-24 21:34 ` David Miller
2009-05-23 16:55 ` [PATCH] net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-24 21:32 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-05-25 21:43 ` David Miller
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