From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:44:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050227224454.GA2168@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050225002804.4905b649.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:28:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > for _set_ time of day? I really can't imagine anyone messing with that.
> > _get_... sure. but set???
>
> Sure. But there must have been a reason to export it in the first place.
NO. Speaking from experience there's tons of totally pointless exports.
> I don't see much point in playing these games. Deprecate it, pull it out
> next year, done.
Sorry, but without a development tree we don't want to play these deprecation
forever games. If you want a longer warning period open 2.7 now that we
can work ahead there and leave 2.6 alone. But restricting all kinds of
totally sane things from going in just doesn't work out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-27 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-24 23:37 [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 5:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 8:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-25 8:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 8:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-25 9:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2005-02-25 9:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-25 9:46 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-27 22:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-02-25 21:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-25 23:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-25 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-26 10:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-26 15:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 15:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 13:33 ` [2.6 patch] deprecate EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_settimeofday) Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 13:37 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-02-26 13:38 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2005-02-26 14:46 ` Russell King
2005-02-26 16:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 16:46 ` Russell King
2005-02-26 17:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 17:20 ` Russell King
2005-02-27 0:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-02-26 17:29 ` Russell King
2005-02-27 0:43 ` Adrian Bunk
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