Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:22:17 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r257696 - in head: libexec/rbootd share/man/man9 sys/compat/svr4 sys/net sys/sys Message-ID: <201311061422.17627.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <527A80F4.1090405@wemm.org> References: <201311051029.rA5ATmmM017799@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmo=e4QPTD88jNax4xjbDeiDHKBEb5h5_LOhJc1U1kK7_ow@mail.gmail.com> <527A80F4.1090405@wemm.org>
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On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 12:48:36 pm Peter Wemm wrote: > On 11/6/13, 9:00 AM, 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. > > That's how it was before - behind COMPAT_43 etc and he removed it. > COMPAT_43 now does less than it did before. I think removing COMPAT_43 is a separate issue from removing what should be under COMPAT_FREEBSD9. I doubt much of anything is using COMPAT_43 ioctls, but there are likely things using the older version of the still-current ioctl that would need to be under COMPAT_FREEBSD[4-9]. -- John Baldwin
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