Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:05:33 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: overdue items in feature-removal-schedule |
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:58:07 -0500 Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> Linus, Andrew, Christoph, > > There are 29 listed items in feature-removal-schedule.txt. 11 of those have > dates or kernel versions that have passed, including this one: > > What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) > When: August 2006
That means they were proposed a long time ago and people were given plenty of time to stop using them. > > One feature (removal of sys_sysctl) is listed for September 2010: are we > really able to predict the future with this much accuracy?
The sysctl one is fantasy - its a kernel/user ABI so isn't going to be going anywhere in a hurry.
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