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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitmap, irq: Add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irq
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:15:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinrDjgb9PSuWVjk+dTSp1Te0284MuMHWc+jL_bf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110331163916.2C6D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:37, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> > [If it was up to me, I'd eliminate the bitmask interfaces and just keep the
>> > list interfaces.  That's the stupid interface that's not needed, and far more
>> > shortsighted.]
>>
>> Agree.
>>
>> It's not impossible to remove those interfaces.  My preferred approach
>> is to add a once-per-boot warning printk if anyone uses the old
>> interface and to remove the thing altogether in three or five years.
>>
>> That reminds me.  It's been like ten years.  Someone please delete sys_bdflush().
>
> This?
>
> But to be honest, this long diffstat seems tell me the worth is doubious. ;-)

you dont need to update the arches.  just leave the compat option in
kernel/sys_ni.c.  there is really no overhead at runtime as the func
is aliased to the ENOSYS stub.
-mike

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-31 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-29 23:46 Mike Travis
2011-03-29 23:56 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-30  0:43   ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-30  0:51     ` Mike Travis
2011-03-30  0:56       ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-30  0:58         ` Mike Travis
2011-03-30  1:04         ` Mike Travis
2011-03-30  1:13           ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-31  7:37             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-03-31 18:15               ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2011-03-30  1:12 ` Mike Travis

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