Re: [PATCH] compatmac is not needed

Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:03:27 +0200

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:39:15AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 17:42, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > ChangeSet 1.1089, 2003/04/08 09:42:06-07:00, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
> >
> > [PATCH] compatmac is not needed
>
> So compatmac.h ends up _empty_ in the latest kernel, but that doesn't
> mean it's not needed.
>
> Please don't break stuff just for the sake of it.

So this is still a valid API? Good to know.

What I don't know: Can it be product specific? So the net people
ship a version for new networking APIs and filesystem people ship
new filesystem methods along with their filesystem support.

Reason I ask: There are many such frameworks floating around, but
none was complete. Many miss BUG_ON(), likely()/unlikely(),
seq_file support and many more interesting stuff.

Regards

Ingo Oeser

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