On Dec 17 2007 13:37, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> Old revisions should be purged after a "reasonable time" (whatever >> that means for everyone), or perhaps whenever there is a Linux kernel >> version with a trailing .0 (2.7.0, 2.8.0), or when great new things >> appear (pkttables, or whatever is in the works). >> >> I think the step should better be made now than later, or this cruft >> will be carried for the next 10 instead of 5 years. > > > Mhh .. well, I guess I would apply patches that fix the types > for all matches and targets and adds the old revisions to > feature-removal-schedule with a timeframe of maybe two years. > But this should happen for all of them at once, we don't > want 20 different dates for removal. > > I am working my way through... I just began with MARK because that was most obvious. Not all matches/targets are conversion-only. E.g. MARK where I done both use-fixed-types and implement-XOR as a single revision/update, which is, IMO, a good thing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
