Re: [Patch] sctp: remove deprecated SCTP_GET_*_OLD stuffs

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:53:30PM -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/net/sctp/user.h b/include/net/sctp/user.h
> > index be2334a..0991f1b 100644
> > --- a/include/net/sctp/user.h
> > +++ b/include/net/sctp/user.h
> > @@ -131,14 +131,6 @@ enum sctp_optname {
> >  #define SCTP_SOCKOPT_BINDX_REM	SCTP_SOCKOPT_BINDX_REM
> >  	SCTP_SOCKOPT_PEELOFF, 	/* peel off association. */
> >  #define SCTP_SOCKOPT_PEELOFF	SCTP_SOCKOPT_PEELOFF
> > -	SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, 	/* Get number of peer addresss. */
> > -#define SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_NUM_OLD	SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_NUM_OLD
> > -	SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_OLD, 	/* Get all peer addresss. */
> > -#define SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_OLD	SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDRS_OLD
> > -	SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_NUM_OLD, 	/* Get number of local addresss. */
> > -#define SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_NUM_OLD	SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_NUM_OLD
> > -	SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_OLD, 	/* Get all local addresss. */
> > -#define SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_OLD	SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDRS_OLD
> >  	SCTP_SOCKOPT_CONNECTX_OLD, /* CONNECTX old requests. */
> 
> After running the regression suite against this patch I find that we can't
> remove the enum values.  Removing the enums changes the value for the remainder
> of the definitions and breaks binary compatibility for applications that use
> those trailing options.
> 
> You should be ok with removing the #defines and actual code that uses them,
> but not the enums.  You can even rename the enums, but we must preserve
> numeric ordering.

If we really depend on the actual value of an enum as in this case,
then e should assign them direct to better document this.

	Sam
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