From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, paulmck@us.ibm.com,
arjan@infradead.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com,
markv@us.ibm.com, greghk@us.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:34:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105055333.17166.304.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050106162928.650e9d71.akpm@osdl.org>
On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 00:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> Fine. Completely agree. Sometimes people do need to be forced to make
> such changes - I don't think anyone would disagree with that.
>
> What's under discussion here is "how to do it". Do we just remove things
> when we notice them, or do we give (say) 12 months notice?
Why should we keep junk around for 12 months that nobody has a legal
reason to be using ? We broke every out of serial tty driver in 2.6.9
and in 2.6.10 for example and we will break them all again in ways we
can't keep the old stuff around. (and Linus broke them all in 2.6.10 8))
There is a difference between a public API like inter_module_get() and
an internal deep reference to something that is fairly private. Zapping
those kind of functions is very different and I agree we should
deprecate them properly.
A lot of this is coming up because old exports for private use were
never really properly marked as _GPL or in other ways so we have a
legacy of assumptions to tidy.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-07 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 19:05 [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 19:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 20:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 20:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 20:35 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-06 20:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 21:35 ` Greg KH
2005-01-06 19:14 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 20:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 19:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-06 20:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 20:32 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 21:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-06 21:24 ` Al Viro
2005-01-06 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-06 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 0:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 0:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 7:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-06 23:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 0:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 3:30 ` Mike Waychison
2005-01-07 9:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-07 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 12:14 ` Antonio Vargas
2005-01-07 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 22:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-08 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08 0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-08 2:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 23:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-08 13:10 ` Al Viro
2005-01-07 1:34 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-01-07 3:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-07 8:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-06 23:56 ` [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation Greg KH
2005-01-07 0:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 0:32 ` Greg KH
2005-01-07 17:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-01-07 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 18:11 ` Greg KH
2005-01-11 12:23 ` [PATCH] cpufreq 2.4 interface removal schedule [Was: Re: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation] Dominik Brodowski
2005-01-12 18:41 ` Greg KH
2005-01-07 23:58 ` [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation Dominik Brodowski
2005-01-12 18:41 ` Greg KH
2005-01-08 18:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-08 21:46 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08 23:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-09 6:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-09 6:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 2:02 ` [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 1:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 1:20 ` Al Viro
2005-01-13 2:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 7:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-13 17:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 17:07 ` Greg KH
2005-01-13 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-13 17:55 ` Greg KH
2005-01-13 18:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 7:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-07 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-07 15:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 15:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-07 15:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-07 15:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
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