From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
malware-list@dmesg.printk.net, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
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a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mmorley@hcl.in,
pavel@suse.cz
Subject: Re: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:04:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090803180437.GA9798@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1249318535.2447.26.camel@dhcp231-106.rdu.redhat.com>
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:55:35PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> In linux-next you will find that those fields are completely unused and
> the kernel can be compiled without them with 0 lose of functionality
> (they are still used in linus's kernel by the audit system)
>
> The only reason I didn't remove them entirely is because the inotify
> kernel interface is EXPORT_SYMBOL. I plan to leave it around for a
> little bit until I'm sure out of tree users don't exist or at least had
> enough time to realize they need to use fsnotify.
There's absolutely no reason to keep them around, we never guaranteed
API stability and never cared about out of tree modules. And if any
out of tree modules are out there using it they won't notice they need
to stop using it before you removed it. So just nuke them entirely
in the for-2.6.32 queue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-03 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 20:13 fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches Eric Paris
2009-07-24 20:48 ` david-gFPdbfVZQbY
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.1.10.0907241340580.28013-Z4YwzcCRHZnr5h6Zg1Auow@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-24 21:01 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-24 21:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-27 17:52 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-07-29 20:11 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-24 21:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-24 21:21 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-24 22:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-24 23:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-24 22:48 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20090724224813.GK27755-yetKDKU6eevNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-24 23:25 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-24 23:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-24 23:49 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-25 0:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-27 18:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-27 19:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-28 17:59 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <20090727192342.GA27895-yetKDKU6eevNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-29 20:14 ` Eric Paris
[not found] ` <20090727183354.GM4231-RIaA196FMs1uuQVovAj/GogTZbYi8/ss@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-29 20:12 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-29 20:07 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-27 16:54 ` Jan Kara
2009-07-25 14:22 ` Niraj kumar
2009-07-29 20:08 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-28 11:48 ` Jon Masters
[not found] ` <1248781708.14145.21.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-29 20:20 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-03 16:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20090803162303.GA31058-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-03 16:55 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-03 18:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <20090803180437.GA9798-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-03 18:13 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-04 16:09 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <200908041709.51659.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-04 16:27 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-04 16:39 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <1249403268.2361.21.camel-8EcGF3LoIElviLIMxPk1+R/sF2h8X+2i0E9HWUfgJXw@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-04 17:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks-PjAqaU27lzQ
[not found] ` <19585.1249406551-+bZmOdGhbsPr6rcHtW+onFJE71vCis6O@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-04 18:20 ` John Stoffel
[not found] ` <19064.31705.491774.122207-HgN6juyGXH5AfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-04 18:50 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-05 9:32 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-08-04 16:34 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <200908041734.05762.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-05 10:12 ` Douglas Leeder
2009-08-05 10:35 ` Douglas Leeder
2009-08-05 2:05 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-05 16:46 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <200908051746.17903.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 10:10 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-06 10:20 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-08-06 10:24 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <20090806101059.GD31370-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 10:20 ` Douglas Leeder
2009-08-06 10:22 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-07 8:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-06 10:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-06 10:59 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-08-06 11:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-06 12:48 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <200908061348.43625.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 12:58 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20090806135800.7ccb7787-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 18:18 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-06 13:50 ` Kernel Event Notification Subsystem (was: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches) Al Boldi
2009-08-06 13:50 ` Al Boldi
2009-08-06 18:18 ` fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches Eric Paris
2009-08-07 16:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <E1MZSQZ-0002as-FA-8f8m9JG5TPIdUIPVzhDTVZP2KDSNp7ea@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-07 17:43 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-08 10:36 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-10 10:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <1249582695.20644.35.camel-8EcGF3LoIElviLIMxPk1+R/sF2h8X+2i0E9HWUfgJXw@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-08 10:34 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <200908061159.45550.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 11:24 ` Pavel Machek
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