From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: a.beregalov@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS option for removal
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 14:34:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090524.143408.192977030.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090523081221.61709ec5@nehalam>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:12:21 -0700
> Mark the flag as deprecated and default off so users won't use it
> by default. Make the message that was a informational into a full
> warning with backtrace, so any usage gets noticed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
NAK, we're just going to toss this now in 2.6.31, there
is nothing to gain by keeping this stuff around. It's
an internal API change rather than something visible to
users.
And it results in a clear compilation error for stale
external code not yet converted.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-24 21:34 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 [this message]
2009-05-23 16:55 ` [PATCH] net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-24 21:32 ` David Miller
2009-05-25 21:43 ` David Miller
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