Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.
- From: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:24:33 +0100
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:13:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:10:50 +0000
Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is a user visible API it is therefore not elligable for removal
anyway
mutter.
We've given people years of notice and _some_ applications have converted
over to open("/dev/sda1", O_DIRECT), as they should.
Linus said we don't break old applications by removing APIs. People
believe him.
That's just dogma, and not credible dogma at that. We regularly remove
features and we have processes for this.
There is no reason why we cannot, with sufficient effort, remove this
driver at some time in the future.
Then a printk() on every open() should be enough. We've all been seeing
"Warning: tcpdump uses obsolete AF_PACKET"... and it finally disappeared.
It's a slow but necessary process IMHO. I agree with Alan that it's not
nice for the users to have sudden application errors without enough earlier
notification (not everybody reads sources for removal notifications).
Regards,
Willy
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