Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 09:00:59 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r257696 - in head: libexec/rbootd share/man/man9 sys/compat/svr4 sys/net sys/sys Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=e4QPTD88jNax4xjbDeiDHKBEb5h5_LOhJc1U1kK7_ow@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGE5yCryiEotSqLfjq-oJrfVuqY5j-o2qXb-AZztR1=pZBz=Rg@mail.gmail.com> References: <201311051029.rA5ATmmM017799@svn.freebsd.org> <201311051156.09819.jhb@freebsd.org> <20131105192904.GG7577@FreeBSD.org> <CAGE5yCryiEotSqLfjq-oJrfVuqY5j-o2qXb-AZztR1=pZBz=Rg@mail.gmail.com>
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I think the important thing here is that there _are_ organisations that rely on some reasonable attempt at supporting historical APIs where needed. This IMHO should've explicitly gone into a compat macro for people who want support of this older stuff. My suggestion for a saner way to handle this deprecation schedule: * do the announce - I'd have to go looking for that, but we should be placing these somewhere obvious (like a wiki page that lists deprecated APIs in order, with the date/release they're going to be deprecated); * deprecate the userland use of the ioctl values first so they use the newer API; * deprecate the kernel API after the announced amount of time, hiding things behind COMPAT_xxx as appropriate. -adrian
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