Re: COMPAT_50 vs NET_RT_IFLIST

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 02:51:56PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> In general, I wouldn't suggest going back through all of our existing
> compat code and replacing the O names with new ones - too much work for
> too little benefit, but in the future, when adding compat code, don't
> add an O name, add a _xx name instead, and if there already were O names
> from pervious versioning (since these in the old method would have all
> needed updating - so the work would be the same) instead of adding new
> O's in their names, change them all to the correct _xx names instead.

Good plan, let's do that (and actually start with this change, as you
suggested).

Martin