From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932182AbWJJQJR (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:09:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932198AbWJJQJQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:09:16 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:18914 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932182AbWJJQJP (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:09:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [rfc] 2.6.19-rc1-git5: consolidation of file backed fault handlers From: Arjan van de Ven To: Nick Piggin Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linux Memory Management , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <20061010150142.GE2431@wotan.suse.de> References: <20061010121314.19693.75503.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20061010143342.GA5580@infradead.org> <20061010150142.GE2431@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:09:06 +0200 Message-Id: <1160496546.3000.315.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > \ What: vm_ops.nopage > -When: October 2008, provided in-kernel callers have been converted > +When: October 2007, provided in-kernel callers have been converted > Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around > forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to > maintain. but a year is a really long time; 6 months would be a lot more reasonable.. (it's not as if most external modules will switch until it's really gone.. more notice isn't really going to help that at all; at least make the kernel printk once on the first use of this so that they notice!)