From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dead & Dying interfaces
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:25:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021205042546.GD9882@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021115184725.H20070@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:47:25PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> We forgot to remove a lot of crap interfaces during 2.5 development.
> Let's start a list now so we don't forget during 2.7.
> This list is a combination of interfaces which have gone during 2.5 and
> interfaces that should go during 2.7. Think of it as a `updating your
> driver/filesystem to sane code' guide.
do_each_thread()/for_each_process():
------------------------------------
(1) reserved for special "catastrophic" operations
e.g. OOM, killall, cap_set_all(), etc.
(2) use for_each_task_pid() or maintain lists/tables of tasks etc. instead
(3) kernel API is missing some pieces to make it avoidable for all callers
Bill
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-05 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-15 18:47 Dead & Dying interfaces Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-15 19:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-16 2:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-17 0:41 ` Greg KH
2002-11-17 1:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-18 17:55 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-19 19:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-12-05 4:25 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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