Re: [PATCH] compatmac is not needed

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 03:39:15 EST

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On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 17:42, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.1089, 2003/04/08 09:42:06-07:00, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
>
> [PATCH] compatmac is not needed

Er, compatmac is there to make new code work in older kernels. The only
concession we have to make for compatibility in the actual code is that
#include, and we put all the ugliness into compatmac.h which makes it
work in older kernels.

So compatmac.h ends up _empty_ in the latest kernel, but that doesn't
mean it's not needed.

Please don't break stuff just for the sake of it.

-- dwmw2

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