Re: [patch 1/1] schedule removal of FUTEX_FD

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Oct 31 2006 - 18:26:14 EST


On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 15:09 -0800, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Apparently FUTEX_FD is unfixably racy and nothing uses it (or if it does, it
> shouldn't).
>
> Add a warning printk, give any remaining users six months to migrate off it.
>
> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>

ACK.

Can you add it to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt too ?

tglx


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