On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:42:45PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On 09/12/06, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You can't deprecate stuff visible to userspace, sorry Thomas, > >we just can't do it. > > > >You can migrate people to "better" interfaces, but you can't > >pull the rug out from anyone once things like this are visible > >to userspace. It's permanently there, and we have to live with > >that. > > Is there some way of marking it so that newer architectures that come > on don't wind up with that export? That way at least as newer > machines and arches come out, they don't have to carry the oldest > baggage. As the oldest architectures eventually get dropped, cruft > can be removed.
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