From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: rae l <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: many items in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt have expired, please update
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:25:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080320132543.GA11149@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91b13c310803200622k6a302851nc97774615f2ef3ee@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:22:29PM +0800, rae l wrote:
> What: old NCR53C9x driver
> When: October 2007
> Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
> driver can be ported over almost trivially.
> Who: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This one is long gone, probably just needs a doc patch.
>
> What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
> When: August 2006
> Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
> Check: kernel_thread
> Why: kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail. Drivers should
> use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from
> implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that
> prevents bugs and code duplication
> Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
We still have in-kernel users of this one. Feel free to send a patch
to change it to "once the last in-tree user is gone"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-20 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-20 13:22 many items in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt have expired, please update rae l
2008-03-20 13:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-03-20 16:15 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-03-20 20:22 ` Pavel Machek
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