Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:17:35 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 00:29, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > Fine. Completely agree. Sometimes people do need to be forced to make > > such changes - I don't think anyone would disagree with that. > > > > What's under discussion here is "how to do it". Do we just remove things > > when we notice them, or do we give (say) 12 months notice? > > Why should we keep junk around for 12 months
To give people a reasonable amount of time to stop using these things, of course.
> that nobody has a legal reason to be using ?
The symbols were exported to non-gpl modules. People used them. Maybe they shouldn't have. Maybe they were asked not to do so, and maybe or maybe not they noticed. Certainly we shouldn't have exported these things in the first place.
We should find a way of repairing things while minimising the amount of screwing people around. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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