Re: Vnode API cleanup pass 2a

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:31:56PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
 >    As is, existing code calling, e.g., VOP_MKDIR will still compile.  Is
 >    there a reason the versioning doesn't rename it to VOP_MKDIR_V2?
 > 
 > For that matter, why new machinery for this versioning stuff at all?
 > Why not just rename the vop from mkdir to mkdir_v2?  That would take
 > care of both struct vop_mkdir_v2_args and VOP_MKDIR_V2.  Am I missing
 > something?

Well, one thing is that there aren't expected to be out-of-tree
callers of VOP_MKDIR, only out-of-tree callees.

It is convenient to be able to break callers too, but I'm ok with
doing it some other way temporarily while hacking.

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David A. Holland
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