From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760184AbYDRSYZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:24:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760027AbYDRSYL (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:24:11 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.153]:16021 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757392AbYDRSYK (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:24:10 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=kC5MFFTm3wGZGf9eYSKsyfHjtzZ5qhAuLpFqr7a6wfX+9SX1HggTjL5c9ai7jCIApY9p5UaDv9ISTP7ybBULVoojuIhKT5dr/AcwiuPZ74+ry/G8ko7NCkMCRqanC2FLfKv6JgwXPk8CIOkQ0pYPXl1FCf7Evn7L1N4cWaKhHJg= Message-ID: <517f3f820804181124o6354444cq696665f38a14ae4f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:24:08 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" To: "Rusty Russell" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removal of FUTEX_FD (and related code) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" In-Reply-To: <200804190207.14598.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200804190207.14598.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 56b814330b8f06e7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey Rusty, On 4/18/08, Rusty Russell wrote: > From: Eric Sesterhenn > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:40:46 +0100 > > hi, > > since FUTEX_FD was scheduled for removal in June 2007 lets remove it. > Google Code search found no users for it and NGPT was abandoned in 2003 > according to IBM. futex.h is left untouched to make sure the id does > not get reassigned. Since queue_me() has no users left it is commented > out to avoid a warning, i didnt remove it completely since it is part > of the internal api (matching unqueue_me()) [...] Please CC me on API changes... Cheers, Michael