On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:21 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Jon Masters wrote: > > Indeed. And options that are removed *must* be supported for a while. We > > can't have modules that loaded previously now failing just because the > > maintainer decided to remove a previously valid option without warning. > > This needs strong upstream coercion on the part of those taking patches. > > We can always put the option back in the module just to make it load, > but I really don't want to be doing that all the time. Maybe I could > write patches that put the options back and just make them print a > warning saying the option is no longer valid, then send them upstream. > Maybe after a few iterations of that people will get the point? Sounds like exactly the right answer to me! Jeremy
