On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:49:11AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 4:36 AM Kent Gibson <[email protected]> wrote: > > /* > > * ABI v1 > > + * > > + * This version of the ABI is deprecated and will be removed in the future. > > + * Use the latest version of the ABI, defined above, instead. > > */ > > How intentional is the wording here? It seems unrealistic that the v1 ABI > would be removed any time soon if there are existing users and applications > cannot yet rely on v2 to be present in all kernels, so it sounds like a hollow > threat. >
Andy had a similar comment regarding the build option, which I updated, but missed updating it here. The updated sentence ends at deprecated. I will update these to match in the next rev. > At the same time I can see that telling users it will be removed can lead to > them moving on to the new version more quickly, so maybe a hollow threat > is in fact appropriate here ;-) > That was the idea - though even the sysfs interface is still there and doesn't seem to be going anywhere in a hurry. Cheers, Kent.
