Re: [PATCH] deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion

[Andi Kleen]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> Hello, Andrew, all!
>> 
>> Since in -mm1 we now have a race-free replacement (that being ioctl_compat),
>> here is a patch to deprecate (un)register_ioctl32_conversion.
>
> Sorry, but this is a lot too early.  Once there's a handfull users left
> in _mainline_ you can start deprecating it (or better remove it completely).

There were never more than a handful users of it anyways. So I think
Michael's suggestion to deprecate it early is very reasonable.

> So far we have a non-final version of the replacement in -mm and no single
> user converted.

For me it looks quite final.

-Andi
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