From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261378AbVAGAE2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:04:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263133AbVAFX7b (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:59:31 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:62406 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263094AbVAFX4g (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:56:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:56:34 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: Al Viro , paulmck@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, 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, Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation Message-ID: <20050106235633.GA10110@kroah.com> References: <20050106190538.GB1618@us.ibm.com> <1105039259.4468.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20050106201531.GJ1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106203258.GN26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106210408.GM1292@us.ibm.com> <20050106212417.GQ26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050106152621.395f935e.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:26:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Which begs the question "how do we ever get rid of these things when we > have no projected date for Linux-2.8"? > > I'd propose: > > a) Create Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt which describes > things which are going away, when, why, who is involved, etc. Ok, I'll bite, here's a patch that does just that. Look good? thanks, greg k-h ----------- Add Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt as a way to notify everyone when and what is going to be removed. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman diff -Nru a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt --- /dev/null Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 196900 +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2005-01-06 15:54:40 -08:00 @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +The following is a list of files and features that are going to be +removed in the kernel source tree. Every entry should contain what +exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing +the work. When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also +be removed from this file. + +--------------------------- + +What: devfs +When: July 2005 +Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs + function calls throughout the kernel tree +Why: It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable + races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is + against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman +