Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262647AbVBYIbm (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:31:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262651AbVBYIbm (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:31:42 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:30123 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262647AbVBYIbk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:31:40 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:28:04 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] unexport do_settimeofday Message-Id: <20050225002804.4905b649.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1109318525.6290.32.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20050224233742.GR8651@stusta.de> <20050224212448.367af4be.akpm@osdl.org> <1109318525.6290.32.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> 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: 943 Lines: 30 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 21:24 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > > > > I haven't found any possible modular usage of do_settimeofday in the > > > kernel. > > > > Please, > > > > - Add deprecated_if_module > > > > - Use it for do_settimeofday() > > > > - Add do_settimeofday to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > > - > > for _set_ time of day? I really can't imagine anyone messing with that. > _get_... sure. but set??? Sure. But there must have been a reason to export it in the first place. I don't see much point in playing these games. Deprecate it, pull it out next year, done. - 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/