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SubjectRe: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:56:34PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:26:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Which begs the question "how do we ever get rid of these things when we
> > have no projected date for Linux-2.8"?
> >
> > I'd propose:
> >
> > a) Create Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt which describes
> > things which are going away, when, why, who is involved, etc.
>
> Ok, I'll bite, here's a patch that does just that. Look good?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> -----------
>
> Add Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt as a way to notify
> everyone when and what is going to be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
>
> diff -Nru a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900
> +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2005-01-06 15:54:40 -08:00
> @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> +The following is a list of files and features that are going to be
> +removed in the kernel source tree. Every entry should contain what
> +exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing
> +the work. When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also
> +be removed from this file.
> +
> +---------------------------
> +
> +What: devfs
> +When: July 2005
> +Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs
> + function calls throughout the kernel tree
> +Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
> + races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
> + against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
> +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
> +

And another. I would also like to flag the exports themselves as
indicated in the patch below. Thoughts?

Thanx, Paul

What: call_rcu(), call_rcu_bh(), and synchronize_kernel() change from
EXPORT_SYMBOL() to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
When: January 9, 2006
Files: kernel/rcupdate.c
Why: There are no known environments supporting RCU from which
one could reasonably expect to port a non-GPL kernel module
or driver to Linux.
Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>


diff -urpN -X ../dontdiff linux-2.5/kernel/rcupdate.c linux-2.5-rcu-export-warn/kernel/rcupdate.c
--- linux-2.5/kernel/rcupdate.c Sat Jan 8 09:25:55 2005
+++ linux-2.5-rcu-export-warn/kernel/rcupdate.c Sat Jan 8 10:21:18 2005
@@ -465,6 +465,8 @@ void synchronize_kernel(void)
}

module_param(maxbatch, int, 0);
+
+/* WARNING: these will become EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() in January 2006. */
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_rcu);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_rcu_bh);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_kernel);
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