Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jan 2005 10:32:20 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation |
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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); - 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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