Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Apr 2005 03:14:47 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] unexport insert_resource |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:44:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > > > > > I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. > > > > > > > True, but this looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly > > be using. I'd prefer to see this one get the deprecated_for_modules > > twelve-month treatment. > > Don't you think twelve month is damn long? Two kernel releases seem > like a better policy - extremly long deprecation periods only encourage > people to never look at mainline kernels but just ad vendor trees.
A year ago we were at 2.6.6. It's not that long, really.
> Note that you're not really helping driver authors by exporting random > kernel symbols
We can mark these things as deprecated-in-modules today, to avoid new usages. - 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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