From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:53:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A2A5D8.4080700@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201829922.23523.68.camel@brick>
>
> ---------------------------
>
> What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
> When: June 2006
> Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january
> 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,
> the option should just go away entirely.
> Who: Arjan van de Ven
>
> Patch submitted to Arjan, maybe 2.6.25?
Ingo picked it up, but no rush for .25, .26 is fine for this as well
>
> What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports
> (temporary transition config option provided until then)
> The transition config option will also be removed at the same time.
> When: before 2.6.19
> Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary
> and are often a sign of "wrong API"
> Who: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
this is an ongoing work; symbols get marked unused and then garbage collected
when they're due; for example akpm has several of that kind in his pile right now
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-01 5:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-01 1:38 Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 4:53 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-02-01 5:18 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 6:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-01 7:04 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 5:02 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 (USB driver api) Greg KH
2008-02-01 7:08 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-02 1:29 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-03 10:44 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 - old NCR53C9x driver Boaz Harrosh
2008-02-14 2:49 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Bill Davidsen
2008-02-14 2:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-14 18:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-14 18:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-14 18:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-14 23:20 ` David Newall
2008-02-15 3:27 ` Rene Herman
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