Re: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Tue Oct 24 2006 - 15:29:08 EST


On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:24:49PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 15:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:31:29PM +0159, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > > What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
> > > When: August 2006
> > > Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> >
> > There are a lot of modular users left. It'll go away as soon as these
> > users have disappeared.
>
> It seems that most of the users that are left are for pretty obscure
> functionality, so I wouldn't expect that to happen so soon. Maybe we
> should mark it as __deprecated in the declaration?

__deprecated_for_modules (__deprecated would imply it would be
completely removed).

> Arnd <><

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Adrian

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