Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 May 2005 00:52:23 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver |
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On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:25:05PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> 9 point releases is nowhere long enough. This removal needs to wait for >> similar amounts of time as other removed interfaces (c.f. devfs, which >> is far more offensive). >> In general there are staging rules for this sort of affair, and although >> I'm no expert in their fine points, nor can I even say what the exact >> criteria are, but it's rather clear in this instance it's over the line. >> I suspect a major release, planned as a staging ground for things like >> e.g. this and removing devfs, would be the most appropriate time for it.
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:41:10AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The current rules are simply "put it for 6-12 months in > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and remove it then". > 2.6.3 is more than a year go, and the date when the raw driver was > declared obsolete predates the introduction of > feature-removal-schedule.txt (at that time, we were still in the belief > a 2.7 kernel would come some day).
This sounds a little shaky but I'll let someone higher up roll dice or whatever to decide.
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