Re: [PATCH] delete seven tty headers

[Alan Cox]

> I agree (I wrote I doubt there are any users at all). But I would prefer
> going through the deprecation phase (adding a #warning) anyway. Removing
> the headers completely in a year, or maybe sooner is OK then.

I really see no point. Distributions are going to build against a set of
headers generated from a kernel, once at the time the distribution is
first assembled (eg the kernel-headers package in Fedora).

> I think this is too late. Distros would find this out after months and
> there will be no reason to re-add empty headers and backport them to
> stable trees in between at that time...

If it takes months to find out then they were not needed 8)

Alan
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