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Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: stefan at loplof dot de
- Cc: tgraf at suug dot ch, drow at false dot org, dwmw2 at infradead dot org, joseph at codesourcery dot com, netdev at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, akpm at osdl dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org
- Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:50:30 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace
- References: <200612091249.39302.stefan@loplof.de> <20061209125533.GO8693@postel.suug.ch> <200612091559.05232.stefan@loplof.de>
From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:58:01 +0100 (MET)
> But when even glibc needs internal compat headers to compile with the second
> kernel version that provides userspace headers, what is the long-term - even
> mid-term - perspective of make headers_install then?
Relax Stefan, I'll make sure these macros never go away.
They may emit warnings, via __attribute__((deprecated)), at
some point, but they will never be flat out removed.