From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman@lnxi.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Simon Evans <spse@secret.org.uk>
Subject: [Patch 1/3] Immediatly deprecate blkmtd
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:28:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060404092832.GB12277@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060404092628.GA12277@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Deprecate blkmtd. Reasoning is described in the patch itself.
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
--- blkmtd/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~blkmtd_deprecation 2006-04-04 10:55:42.000000000 +0200
+++ blkmtd/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2006-04-04 11:03:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -246,3 +246,17 @@ Why: The interface no longer has any cal
Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
---------------------------
+
+What: blkmtd
+When: April 2006
+Files: drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c
+Why: o An alternative exists that hasn't had bug report for > 1 year.
+ o Most embedded people tend to use ancient kernels with custom patches
+ from mtd cvs and elsewhere, so the 1 year warning period neither
+ helps nor hurts them too much.
+ o It's in the way of klibc. The problems caused by pulling blkmtd
+ support are fairly low, while the problems caused by delaying klibc
+ can be fairly substantial. At best, this would be a severe burden
+ on hpa's time.
+
+Who: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-04 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-04 9:26 [Patch 0/3] Remove blkmtd Jörn Engel
2006-04-04 9:28 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2006-04-04 12:08 ` [Patch 1/3] Immediatly deprecate blkmtd Thomas Gleixner
2006-04-04 9:29 ` [Patch 2/3] Mark block2mtd as not deprecated Jörn Engel
2006-04-04 11:18 ` Jörn Engel
2006-04-04 12:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-04-04 9:30 ` [Patch 3/3] Remove blkmtd Jörn Engel
2006-04-04 12:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-04-05 6:47 ` [Patch 0/3] " Andrew Morton
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