Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:22:57 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: RFC: deprecate CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG and schedule it for rapid removal |
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > We know that enabling this feature will cause some machines to hang, > > and that this problem has existed for six months. > > > > Would it not be better to fix that problem (perhaps just with the > > revert) so that 2.6.33, 2.6.32.x and earlier can be fixed? Then we can > > nuke the feature in 2.6.34. > > Another way of looking at is "we know it's been broken for six months, and > clearly nobody really ever enabled it in any distro, and even getting a bug > report on it took forever. So why keep it around at all"? > > So I'd personally rather just remove it outright than deprecate it or even > try to fix it. Since clearly absolutely nobody depends on it. > > The usual reason for deprecating a feature is to give people time to move > away from it, but since clearly nobody uses it...
Excellent - that makes it all even simpler to handle.
Ingo
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