Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:30:27 -0500 | From | Mike Waychison <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:29:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton 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? > > > Remove when we notice with a short (measured in weeks) period where that > removal happens only in -mm. It's a price people have to pay for not > submitting their code upstream.
Not everyone has cycles to follow to -mm.
I'd much rather see deprecation warnings in mainline releases for at least one if not two releases.
- -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice
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