Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, bunk@stusta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       pbadari@us.ibm.com, kenneth.w.chen@intel.com
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:50:50 +0100
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On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > another thing we really should do is making such "obsolete to be phased
> >  out" things printk (at least once per boot ;) so that people see it in
> >  their logs, not just in the kernel source.
> 
> Like sys_bdflush() has been doing for 3-4 years.  That still comes out on
> a few of my test boxes, but I'm a distro recidivist.

so it works ;)

if you were a distro maker or a userland software developer you'd notice
and change (just like non-paleontic distro makers did ;)..


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