Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert oom rewrite series | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:04:41 -0500 |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:55:51 GMT, Alan Cox said: > > How does one mark it apropriately? > > The commit 51b1bd2 (oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable, see below) > > added it to feature-removal-schedule.txt, a patch for > > Documentation/ABI has also been provided in the meantime, if i'm not > > mistaken. > > Yes - so why is it spewing crap, annoying users and trying to irritate > application authors. It's not 2012 yet.
Aug 2012 is only 6 kernel releases or so away....
Presumably the whinging is so we start tracking down the offending userspace and getting it fixed before 2012 gets here. Sticking the warning in just one or two kernel releases before it becomes official leads to "I can't run the new kernel because my userspace isn't patched yet". We really can't win here, we don't whinge and stuff doesn't get tracked down and fixed, we do whinge and that gets people upset too. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |