From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756036Ab0KQEFK (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:05:10 -0500 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:60422 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752741Ab0KQEFI (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:05:08 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Alan Cox Cc: Florian Mickler , Jesper Juhl , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML , Ying Han , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@web.de>, Mandeep Singh Baines , "Figo.zhang" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert oom rewrite series In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:55:51 GMT." <20101116145551.49c47df5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20101115093410.BEFD.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20101114181905.bc5b44f9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20101115113238.BF06.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <34565.1289866395@localhost> <20101116110310.1502de2a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101116140341.42561c84@schatten.dmk.lab> <20101116145551.49c47df5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1289966681_4694P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:04:41 -0500 Message-ID: <18510.1289966681@localhost> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 128.173.34.98 localhost Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=vivi.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020205.4CE3545A.00E3,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2009-09-22 00:05:22, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1289966681_4694P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:55:51 GMT, Alan Cox said: > > How does one mark it apropriately? > > The commit 51b1bd2 (oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable, see below) > > added it to feature-removal-schedule.txt, a patch for > > Documentation/ABI has also been provided in the meantime, if i'm not > > mistaken. > > Yes - so why is it spewing crap, annoying users and trying to irritate > application authors. It's not 2012 yet. Aug 2012 is only 6 kernel releases or so away.... Presumably the whinging is so we start tracking down the offending userspace and getting it fixed before 2012 gets here. Sticking the warning in just one or two kernel releases before it becomes official leads to "I can't run the new kernel because my userspace isn't patched yet". We really can't win here, we don't whinge and stuff doesn't get tracked down and fixed, we do whinge and that gets people upset too. --==_Exmh_1289966681_4694P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFM41RZcC3lWbTT17ARAo+YAJ9A0IvKvJ24BXUEw/yGtF8CYDd76ACeNGbA iqdFFSVCusUYWMcpTlokjY0= =5h2H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1289966681_4694P--