From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 85280 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2018 23:15:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 85216 invoked by uid 89); 23 Apr 2018 23:15:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:15:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Adhemerval Zanella CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Deprecate sysctl syscall interface In-Reply-To: <1524523018-7216-1-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Message-ID: References: <1524523018-7216-1-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-SW-Source: 2018-04/txt/msg00486.txt.bz2 I don't think it makes sense at all to add a new symbol version for something being deprecated. If you deprecate a symbol, you make the *existing* version into a compat symbol, and stop it being declared and stop it being defined for new ports and static linking. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com