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SubjectRe: RFC: deprecate CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG and schedule it for rapid removal


On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> We know that enabling this feature will cause some machines to hang,
> and that this problem has existed for six months.
>
> Would it not be better to fix that problem (perhaps just with the
> revert) so that 2.6.33, 2.6.32.x and earlier can be fixed? Then we can
> nuke the feature in 2.6.34.

Another way of looking at is "we know it's been broken for six months, and
clearly nobody really ever enabled it in any distro, and even getting a
bug report on it took forever. So why keep it around at all"?

So I'd personally rather just remove it outright than deprecate it or even
try to fix it. Since clearly absolutely nobody depends on it.

The usual reason for deprecating a feature is to give people time to move
away from it, but since clearly nobody uses it...

Linus


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