On 12/31/2013 07:50 PM, David Miller wrote:

From: Daniel Borkmann <redacted>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:54:31 +0100

quoted

We could entirely remove it as it was e.g. proposed in 2008 [1]
already if you see any value in that. Eventually it's up to Dave and
if he likes, I'll be happy to send a patch that removes this define.

Removing user visible defines can break source builds, for example
someone building string tables or auto-generating things to facilitate
accessing these values from languages other than C.

It's harmless, since nobody semantically expects anything of it, but
we have to keep it around.

Ok, that's fine by me.

Thanks for applying Dave and a happy new year!

Best,

Daniel