[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] API replacement/deprecation

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Thu Sep 6 14:59:30 UTC 2018


On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 3:11 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:57 AM Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
>> I'd like to discuss ways that we could deprecate APIs more sanely. At
>> present I've seen (and used) two approaches, fast and slow:
>
>> Example: strscpy(), VLA removal
>
> I didn't know VLAs were a kernel API ;-)

I couldn't find a better short-hand that covered everything. "usage
patterns"? Whatever, people understand what I mean. :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security


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