feature removal schedule is removed ?

feature removal schedule is removed ?

[David Shwatrz]

Hi,
Once upon a time there was a feature removal schedule in Documentation:
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt?v=3.6

Was it removed ? I cannot find it in recent kernels (like 3.9.0-rc4)

Rgs
DS

feature removal schedule is removed ?

[Tobias Boege]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, David Shwatrz wrote:
> Hi,
> Once upon a time there was a feature removal schedule in Documentation:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt?v=3.6
> 
> Was it removed ? I cannot find it in recent kernels (like 3.9.0-rc4)
> 

git would know:

---
$ git log --pretty=short -1 -- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
commit 9c0ece069b32e8e122aea71aa47181c10eb85ba7
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

    Get rid of Documentation/feature-removal.txt
---

Regards,
Tobi

feature removal schedule is removed ?

[Jonathan Neuschäfer]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:15:22AM +0200, David Shwatrz wrote:
> Hi,
> Once upon a time there was a feature removal schedule in Documentation:
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt?v=3.6
> 
> Was it removed ? I cannot find it in recent kernels (like 3.9.0-rc4)

Yes.

$ git show --summary 9c0ece069b3
commit 9c0ece069b32e8e122aea71aa47181c10eb85ba7
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 1 15:21:43 2012 -0700

    Get rid of Documentation/feature-removal.txt
    
    This file has turned out to be a pure write-only file that causes merge
    conflicts and has no actual redeeming features.
    
    There is never any reason to add stuff to this idiotic file.  Either
    something isn't getting used, and you should just remove it, or there is
    no excuse for removing it in the first place.  Just stop the idiocy.
    
    It has also been the excuse for just plain bad behavior ("Hey, I don't
    like xyz, so let's mark it for removal" followed by "Hey, look, it been
    in feature-removal.txt for six months now, so we should remove it").
    
    The recent bogus setitimer() ABI change request was just the most recent
    example of pointless and incorrect mental masturbation involving this
    file, and I'm tired of the silly and pointless conflicts in the file.
    
    This removal was discussed during the recent kernel summit, and while
    Steven Rostedt suggested we should just enter the file itself in the
    feature-removal schedule (to see if anybody who edits the file actually
    looks at it), that's cute but non-productive.
    
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

 delete mode 100644 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
$ git describe --contains 9c0ece06
v3.7-rc1~165


Greetings,
Jonathan Neusch?fer