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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] API replacement/deprecation
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 12:44:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180907114421.GD17459@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180907102519.GX13888@piout.net>

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On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 12:25:19PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 07/09/2018 12:54:37+0300, Jani Nikula wrote:

> > The only real downside that I can see is that it centralizes the
> > deprecation information in the semantic patch instead of the functions
> > themselves.

> Which is not bad because how do you expect maintainers to learn about
> the deprecation?
> I don't think anyone will go and read the strcpy's code or
> documentation.

Right, this is the most common pain point I see with these transitions -
people hear about these things through word of mouth which creates
confusion.  This thread is the first time I heard about strscpy()
existing, let alone that the other variants were deprecated in favour of
it.  A similar thing happened with the SPDX tags, people were querying
what was going on with the patches and links to mailing list posts were
getting passed around.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-07 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-05 22:57 Kees Cook
2018-09-05 23:41 ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-06  2:24   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-06  6:12     ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-06 18:24     ` Kees Cook
2018-09-06 23:18       ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-06 23:24         ` Kees Cook
2018-09-07  7:03           ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-07  7:20             ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-07  7:31               ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-07  9:42               ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-07  8:04             ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-07  9:38               ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-07  9:54                 ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-07 10:05                   ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-07 10:43                     ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-07 10:25                   ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-07 11:44                     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2018-09-10 12:51                   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-11  8:10                     ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-11  9:34                       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-11 11:08                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-07  8:19           ` Jan Kara
2018-09-07 14:33           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-07 16:10             ` Kees Cook
2018-09-07 20:30               ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-07 20:56                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-08  8:15                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-08 15:19                     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-10 12:28           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-10 16:09             ` Kees Cook
2018-09-07 10:14         ` Dan Carpenter
2018-09-07 10:40         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-07  8:40       ` Maxime Ripard
2018-09-06  4:44 ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-06 10:04 ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-06 10:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-06 14:59   ` Kees Cook
2018-09-06 15:06     ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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