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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:53:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A2A5D8.4080700@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201829922.23523.68.camel@brick>

> 
> ---------------------------
> 
> What:	CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
> When:	June 2006
> Why:	Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january
>         2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,
> 	the option should just go away entirely.
> Who:    Arjan van de Ven
> 
> Patch submitted to Arjan, maybe 2.6.25?

Ingo picked it up, but no rush for .25, .26 is fine for this as well

> 
> What:	Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports
> 	(temporary transition config option provided until then)
> 	The transition config option will also be removed at the same time.
> When:	before 2.6.19
> Why:	Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary
> 	and are often a sign of "wrong API"
> Who:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

this is an ongoing work; symbols get marked unused and then garbage collected
when they're due; for example akpm has several of that kind in his pile right now

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-01  1:38 Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01  4:53 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-02-01  5:18   ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01  6:33     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-01  7:04       ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01  5:02 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 (USB driver api) Greg KH
2008-02-01  7:08 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-02  1:29 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-03 10:44 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 - old NCR53C9x driver Boaz Harrosh
2008-02-14  2:49 ` Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Bill Davidsen
2008-02-14  2:55   ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-14 18:16     ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-14 18:24       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-14 18:26         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-14 23:20         ` David Newall
2008-02-15  3:27           ` Rene Herman

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