Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt to be updated soon?

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt to be updated soon?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  as is my wont, i will mutter quietly about the amount of content in
the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt referring to stuff
that should have been removed ages ago (some of it is dated as far
back as 2005).

  is there any plan on bringing that file up to date, and/or deleting
stuff that's been marked for deletion for years?

rday
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Re: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt to be updated soon?

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:54:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   as is my wont, i will mutter quietly about the amount of content in
> the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt referring to stuff
> that should have been removed ages ago (some of it is dated as far
> back as 2005).
> 
>   is there any plan on bringing that file up to date, and/or deleting
> stuff that's been marked for deletion for years?

Sure, feel free to send patches, and if they are rejected, send a patch
for the feature-removal-schedule.txt file removing the option there.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt to be updated soon?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Greg KH wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:54:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   as is my wont, i will mutter quietly about the amount of content
> > in the file Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt referring
> > to stuff that should have been removed ages ago (some of it is
> > dated as far back as 2005).
> >
> >   is there any plan on bringing that file up to date, and/or
> > deleting stuff that's been marked for deletion for years?
>
> Sure, feel free to send patches, and if they are rejected, send a
> patch for the feature-removal-schedule.txt file removing the option
> there.

  that's a nice idea, i wonder how well it would work in practice.  a
couple years ago, i submitted a patch to remove the *clearly*
deprecated/obsolete pcmcia ioctl feature.  that was less than
spectacularly successful:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2007-May/thread.html#4536

it's now 2.5 years later, that feature is still there and is now 5
years overdue for removal.  i'll submit another patch to get rid of
it, but if there's yet another argument for why it can't quite be
deleted yet, i'm not sure what value the feature-removal-schedule file
has anymore.

either people should take it moderately seriously, or it should be
deleted as a waste of time.

rday
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Robert P. J. Day                               Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

            Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.

Web page:                                          http://crashcourse.ca
Twitter:                                       http://twitter.com/rpjday
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Re: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt to be updated soon?

[Stefan Richter]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> either people should take it moderately seriously, or it should be
> deleted as a waste of time.

Whose time is it wasting?  Arguably nobody's.  If any of the features
which are on the removal schedule affect you (you need them to go away,
or you need them to stay), then talk to the concerned developers/
maintainers and, if necessary, send updates feature-removal-schedule.txt
(push back dates, remove entries or whatever).
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