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Subject: Re: svn commit: r257696 - in head: libexec/rbootd share/man/man9
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From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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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