On Monday 2009-01-12 05:32, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> as per Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, some legacy code is ripe >> for removal. Now while pursuing this I wondered whether the struct definitions >> for the old code in the header files (e.g. in linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h) >> can also be removed or whether people will argue that doing so would >> unnecessarily cause dismay on behalf the potential users (of which there are >> not any). I am not aware of any users, and neither is Search Engine Google, so >> I'd just take the bait and kill it. Vetoes? > > Every time I'm searching I do find some users of at least some > iptables headers. Maybe not this specific one, but that doesn't > mean much, fact is there might be users. > > That being said, I'd be fine removing both the functionality > and the headers after a sufficiently long period. I'm not > really confident that the period has indeed be long enough > though. When did we schedule this for removal? January 2008. -- 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
