Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261286AbVAGDSE (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:18:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261304AbVAGDSE (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:18:04 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:7149 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261286AbVAGDRz (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:17:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:17:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Alan Cox Cc: hch@infradead.org, 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports Message-Id: <20050106191735.0421cdca.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1105055333.17166.304.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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> <1105055333.17166.304.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1202 Lines: 29 Alan Cox wrote: > > On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 00:29, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Christoph Hellwig 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 To give people a reasonable amount of time to stop using these things, of course. > that nobody has a legal reason to be using ? The symbols were exported to non-gpl modules. People used them. Maybe they shouldn't have. Maybe they were asked not to do so, and maybe or maybe not they noticed. Certainly we shouldn't have exported these things in the first place. We should find a way of repairing things while minimising the amount of screwing people around. - 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/