Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:08:35 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.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>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r257696 - in head: libexec/rbootd share/man/man9 sys/compat/svr4 sys/net sys/sys Message-ID: <201311061208.36029.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=e4QPTD88jNax4xjbDeiDHKBEb5h5_LOhJc1U1kK7_ow@mail.gmail.com> References: <201311051029.rA5ATmmM017799@svn.freebsd.org> <CAGE5yCryiEotSqLfjq-oJrfVuqY5j-o2qXb-AZztR1=pZBz=Rg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=e4QPTD88jNax4xjbDeiDHKBEb5h5_LOhJc1U1kK7_ow@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 12:00:59 pm Adrian Chadd wrote: > 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. Actually, Gleb has mostly done this, it's just that the last step turned into an rm rather than moving under an #ifdef COMPAT_xxxx. -- John Baldwin
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