From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754538AbXEAWeA (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 18:34:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754611AbXEAWeA (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 18:34:00 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:49449 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754538AbXEAWd7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 18:33:59 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4637C04E.4070306@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 00:33:50 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070408 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Andre Tomt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal? References: <46375D1C.4050404@tomt.net> <10590.1178037443@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <10590.1178037443@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2007 17:30:36 +0200, Andre Tomt said: >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >>> http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Stuff_to_be_removed > >> Already documented in the kernel tarball, see >> Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > > Robert's point is that the file you cited is horrendously out of date, and > we need to create a consensus of what *should* be in feature-removal-schedule.txt > so we can update it to correspond to some sort of reality, or at the very least > some politically correct sanitized view of reality. It currently lists > stuff scheduled to be removed 18 months ago, and doesn't list stuff that > everybody agrees deserves to be heaved over the side as soon as the users have > had "enough warning" (whatever that means).... It means to get in touch with people who are affected. Yes, that's the tough part. Regarding features that are overdue for removal according to feature-removal-schedule.txt: I remember that at least one person used to watch for due dates for feature removal, wrote the removing patches, and sent them to the appropriate lists and maintainers. This either got rid of the obsolete stuff, or it turned up reasons why some feature could not be removed just yet and how to update feature-removal-schedule.txt to correctly reflect that. So, as they say, Patches Are Welcome. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= ---=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/