[PATCH] new applet: nmeter + Off Topic

Michael S. Zick mszick at morethan.org
Thu Jul 6 17:20:42 UTC 2006


On Thu July 6 2006 12:05, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 06 July 2006 11:49 am, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > Looks better, yes. Still should there be the possibility to turn 2.6 or
> > 2.4 support completely off? It would save at lease the int if not more..
> 
> If we add a global "enable 2.4 support" switch, then we should remember this 
> is here.
> 
> I'm on the fence about whether a global "enable 2.6 support" switch makes 
> sense.  Considering it won't ship in a release before December, so it's 
> effectively 2007 by then, I'm leaning against it.  A 2.4 switch gives us 
> something to hide devfs names and devfsd behind, 
>
Would it make sense then to start adding __attribute__((depreciated)) when
code on the "endangered code" list is touched?

MikeZ



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