Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:57:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:57:17 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:54992 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:57:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:00:40 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dead & Dying interfaces Message-ID: <20021115190040.GZ23425@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20021115184725.H20070@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021115184725.H20070@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 19 On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:47:25PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > We forgot to remove a lot of crap interfaces during 2.5 development. > Let's start a list now so we don't forget during 2.7. > This list is a combination of interfaces which have gone during 2.5 and > interfaces that should go during 2.7. Think of it as a `updating your > driver/filesystem to sane code' guide. It's very possible (and in fact bugfixing) to incrementally convert callers of these interfaces, even during freezes or stable releases. A bugfix is a bugfix. =) Cheers, Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/