Messages in this thread | | | From | Sedat Dilek <> | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2022 21:19:20 +0200 | Subject | Re: [Linux v5.17.9] -Wdeprecated-declarations warnings with LLVM-14 and OpenSSL v3.0.x |
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On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 9:05 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 11:41 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Why go back and forth... do it like Alexander the Great and the Gordian knot. > > > > Sword - Swash - Done. > > > > commit 6bfb56e93bcef41859c2d5ab234ffd80b691be35 > > "cert host tools: Stop complaining about deprecated OpenSSL functions" > > Well, it's not like that is the *right* fix. > > But I think for now, the answer is "leave it like that until we can > just get rid of the ENGINE API entirely". > > I absolutely detest the "deprecation" warnings. We used to do that in > the kernel too, and it was a complete disaster. The warnings are very > noisy, and nobody ever cares about them, so it's simply not worth it. > > So we deprecated "__deprecated" in the kernel itself: > > 771c035372a0 deprecate the '__deprecated' attribute warnings > entirely and for good > > and I don't think we should care about it when it comes to OpenSSL either. > > Eventually, that deprecated interface will go away entirely, and by > then we hopefully don't care about really old openssl implementations > and will have gotten rid of the uses. > > But for now, I think putting our head in the sand is actually the > _better_ model rather than fighting some battle over old vs new > libraries. > > Because sometimes, if you ignore a problem, it really does just go away. >
To be honest: I like your approach, Linus. Very pragma-tic. That's why you use pragma's in your patch :-).
I invested too much of my lifetime in making things work "correctly". And yes, it's post-rc1...
Most of the apps in the Debian world passed the OpenSSL-v3 transition.
-Sedat-
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVvr6PKUoEs [1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-openssl.html
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