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Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:42:45PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On 09/12/06, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >You can't deprecate stuff visible to userspace, sorry Thomas,
> >we just can't do it.
> >
> >You can migrate people to "better" interfaces, but you can't
> >pull the rug out from anyone once things like this are visible
> >to userspace. It's permanently there, and we have to live with
> >that.
>
> Is there some way of marking it so that newer architectures that come
> on don't wind up with that export? That way at least as newer
> machines and arches come out, they don't have to carry the oldest
> baggage. As the oldest architectures eventually get dropped, cruft
> can be removed.
Which architectures ever got dropped?