Re: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches

Eric Paris
2009-08-03T18:15:49Z

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 14:04 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Will nuke entirely in .32