From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751229AbWEAJMb (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 May 2006 05:12:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751327AbWEAJMb (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 May 2006 05:12:31 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:13281 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751229AbWEAJMb (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 May 2006 05:12:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 02:07:22 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Adrian Bunk Cc: arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] kernel/sys.c: possible cleanups Message-Id: <20060501020722.62bc5050.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060501085939.GV3570@stusta.de> References: <20060501071134.GH3570@stusta.de> <20060501001803.48ac34df.akpm@osdl.org> <20060501073514.GQ3570@stusta.de> <1146469146.20760.31.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060501004925.36e4dd21.akpm@osdl.org> <20060501085939.GV3570@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > > So the work would expand to: > - writing 200 feature-removal-schedule.txt entries > - marking 200 functions and variables as __deprecated_for_modules > > And in a few months: > - removing 200 feature-removal-schedule.txt entries > - removing 200 __deprecated_for_modules markers > - removing the 200 unused exports Don't bother with all that stuff - a modprobe-time warning across a few kernel releases is sufficient to make any developers who are dependent upon an export aware of their problem. Changing the export to EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL() and then later removing the export is adequate.