On Thursday 25 September 2003 07:47 pm, Chad N. Tindel wrote: > > patch 4 - remove dead code, old compatibility stuff and redundant > > checks. > > I'm a bit concerned about doing some of this stuff in the 2.4 > series. That compatibility stuff is there for a reason, and was > set to be removed in 2.6. Perhaps we shouldn't be doing stuff this > drastic until 2.6 because of the risk of breaking users. That's the word I got from Jay in response to the " [Kernel-janitors] old ioctl definitions in 2.5" thread. >Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote: > I was going to add it on to the end of the clean up set, but > if you want to do it, go ahead. Nobody seems to have objected to > removing the _OLD stuff, which I view as a good thing. -- | Shmulik Hen Advanced Network Services | | Israel Design Center, Jerusalem | | LAN Access Division, Platform Networking | | Intel Communications Group, Intel corp. | - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
