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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:32:53 -0400
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] kexec: remove memory reserve patching for
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 09:18:39AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> So, like, the other day Vivek Goyal mumbled:
> > 
> > Now with distros adopting kexce-tools, I am in for maintaining the backward
> > compatibility as far as possible. Putting a note in the code is good that
> > down the line, get rid of this code.
> 
> Perhaps scheduling it as an entry in 
> 
>     Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> 
> just so people (distros) can plan around it?

Perfect. In kexec-tools it can go in doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt.

-Vivek