Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] API replacement/deprecation

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Kees,

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 4:59 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 3:11 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:57 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >> I'd like to discuss ways that we could deprecate APIs more sanely. At
> >> present I've seen (and used) two approaches, fast and slow:
> >
> >> Example: strscpy(), VLA removal
> >
> > I didn't know VLAs were a kernel API ;-)
>
> I couldn't find a better short-hand that covered everything. "usage
> patterns"? Whatever, people understand what I mean. :)

Initially I though it made a big difference, as no VLA provider API was removed.
But it indeed becomes an equivalent problem when adding -Werror=vla.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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