From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: overdue items in feature-removal-schedule
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:05:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071203170533.1ea26c65@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712031658.lB3Gw7ds018649@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:58:07 -0500
Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> Linus, Andrew, Christoph,
>
> There are 29 listed items in feature-removal-schedule.txt. 11 of those have
> dates or kernel versions that have passed, including this one:
>
> What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
> When: August 2006
That means they were proposed a long time ago and people were given
plenty of time to stop using them.
>
> One feature (removal of sys_sysctl) is listed for September 2010: are we
> really able to predict the future with this much accuracy?
The sysctl one is fantasy - its a kernel/user ABI so isn't going to be
going anywhere in a hurry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-03 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-03 16:58 Erez Zadok
2007-12-03 17:05 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-12-03 17:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-03 19:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
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