Re: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes

Pierre Ossman
2006-10-28T08:34:55Z

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 15:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:31:29PM +0159, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>> What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
>>> When: August 2006
>>> Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>> There are a lot of modular users left. It'll go away as soon as these
>> users have disappeared.
>
> It seems that most of the users that are left are for pretty obscure
> functionality, so I wouldn't expect that to happen so soon. Maybe we
> should mark it as __deprecated in the declaration?
>

What should be used to replace it? The MMC block driver uses it to
manage the block device queue. I am not that intimate with the block
layer so I do not know the proper fix.

Rgds
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