On 02/22/2011 04:37 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [15:28:59], Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 02/22/2011 01:17 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
>  >On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [13:09:34], Avi Kivity wrote:
>  >>   On 02/22/2011 12:18 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
>  >>   >Mark the current iohandler list as 'old'.  In the next commit we'll
>  >>   >introduce a new iohandler api that will replace the list name.
>  >>   >
>  >>   >The 'old' list will eventually be completely replaced by the new
>  >>   >implementation.
>  >>
>  >>   A better way to do this is to implement the old API in terms of the
>  >>   new API.  This ensures you don't lose any functionality, and reduces
>  >>   the amount of low-level infrastructure.
>  >
>  >With this new approach of switching to just one callback, that is more
>  >work for little gain as we'll just deprecate the older API soon.  (The
>  >previous patches used this approach, btw.)
>
>  Does "deprecate" mean "completely remove"?
>
>  If so I agree.

Yes, completely removing the older API is the plan (as noted in
message 00).

Great. That's a much better deprecate than "add the new thing and let the old thing rot" (which I've been guilty of a few times).

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