Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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.
OK, lets remove it in 2.6.30. At that point it should have been
almost 1.5 years, which seems to be enough.
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