From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dead & Dying interfaces
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:00:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021115190040.GZ23425@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021115184725.H20070@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:47:25PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> We forgot to remove a lot of crap interfaces during 2.5 development.
> Let's start a list now so we don't forget during 2.7.
> This list is a combination of interfaces which have gone during 2.5 and
> interfaces that should go during 2.7. Think of it as a `updating your
> driver/filesystem to sane code' guide.
It's very possible (and in fact bugfixing) to incrementally convert
callers of these interfaces, even during freezes or stable releases.
A bugfix is a bugfix. =)
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-15 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-15 18:47 Dead & Dying interfaces Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-15 19:00 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-11-16 2:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-17 0:41 ` Greg KH
2002-11-17 1:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-18 17:55 ` Dave Jones
2002-11-19 19:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-12-05 4:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
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