Re: [2.6 patch] more ftape removal

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > This patch removes some more ftape code.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> > this affects userspace exported headers, so I'm not sure we want to kill 
> > that.  even if the interface is gone is current kernels, people might 
> > want to build binaries against these headers that work on older kernels.
>
> Can you be more specific?
>
> Building ftape-utils has already been broken by you removing four 
> userspace exported ftape headers in your ftape removal patch.

One would expect that to break.  I'm more concerned about things like 
util-linux or mt-st.

But you're right, we should probably remove everything at a set.

	Jeff



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