From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261269AbVAGDax (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:30:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261270AbVAGDaw (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:30:52 -0500 Received: from brmea-mail-4.Sun.COM ([192.18.98.36]:21709 "EHLO brmea-mail-4.sun.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261269AbVAGDal (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:30:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:30:27 -0500 From: Mike Waychison Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports In-reply-to: <20050107002624.GA29006@infradead.org> To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andrew Morton , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, 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, torvalds@osdl.org Message-id: <41DE0253.6090208@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime 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> <20050106234123.GA27869@infradead.org> <20050106162928.650e9d71.akpm@osdl.org> <20050107002624.GA29006@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:29:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton 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? > > > Remove when we notice with a short (measured in weeks) period where that > removal happens only in -mm. It's a price people have to pay for not > submitting their code upstream. Not everyone has cycles to follow to -mm. I'd much rather see deprecation warnings in mainline releases for at least one if not two releases. - -- Mike Waychison Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1 (650) 352-5299 voice 1 (416) 202-8336 voice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: The opinions expressed in this email are held by me, and may not represent the views of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3gJTdQs4kOxk3/MRAq9uAKCRHF7aF/vviLfIQl3fvv4eZSYpCACgh82/ 5aTd4a6BqeGISYPZDDUvhSg= =mhET -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----