Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751886AbWJXTZI (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:25:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752006AbWJXTZH (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:25:07 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:60103 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751886AbWJXTZE (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:25:04 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:24:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Jiri Slaby , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Dominik Brodowski , Harald Welte , Arjan van de Ven , Jean Delvare References: <45324658.1000203@gmail.com> <20061016133352.GA23391@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20061016133352.GA23391@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610242124.49911.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:bf0b512fe2ff06b96d9695102898be39 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5224 Lines: 68 On Monday 16 October 2006 15:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:31:29PM +0159, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) > > When: August 2006 > > Who: Christoph Hellwig > > There are a lot of modular users left. It'll go away as soon as these > users have disappeared. It seems that most of the users that are left are for pretty obscure functionality, so I wouldn't expect that to happen so soon. Maybe we should mark it as __deprecated in the declaration? Arnd <>< ./arch/arm/kernel/ecard.c: ret = kernel_thread(ecard_task, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL); ./arch/arm/kernel/process.c:pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags) ./arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c: if (kernel_thread(balanced_irq, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL) >= 0) ./arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_thread.c: if(kernel_thread(thread, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL) < 0) { ./arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c: pid = kernel_thread(xpc_activating, (void *) ((u64) partid), 0); ./drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_probe_task_pid = kernel_thread(adb_probe_task, NULL, SIGCHLD | CLONE_KERNEL); ./drivers/macintosh/mediabay.c: kernel_thread(media_bay_task, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL); ./drivers/macintosh/therm_pm72.c: ctrl_task = kernel_thread(main_control_loop, NULL, SIGCHLD | CLONE_KERNEL); ./drivers/macintosh/therm_windtunnel.c: x.poll_task = kernel_thread( control_loop, NULL, SIGCHLD | CLONE_KERNEL ); ./drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c: ret = kernel_thread(dvb_ca_en50221_thread, ca, 0); ./drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c: ret = kernel_thread (dvb_frontend_thread, fe, 0); ./drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110.c: ret = kernel_thread(arm_thread, (void *) av7110, 0); ./drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-tvaudio.c: dev->thread.pid = kernel_thread(my_thread,dev,0); ./drivers/media/video/msp3400-driver.c: v4l_warn(client, "kernel_thread() failed\n"); ./drivers/mmc/mmc_queue.c: ret = kernel_thread(mmc_queue_thread, mq, CLONE_KERNEL); ./drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c: ret = kernel_thread(mtd_blktrans_thread, tr, CLONE_KERNEL); ./drivers/pci/hotplug/cpci_hotplug_core.c: pid = kernel_thread(event_thread, NULL, 0); ./drivers/pci/hotplug/cpci_hotplug_core.c: pid = kernel_thread(poll_thread, NULL, 0); ./drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_ctrl.c: pid = kernel_thread(event_thread, NULL, 0); ./drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_hpc.c: tid_poll = kernel_thread (hpc_poll_thread, NULL, 0); ./drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_ctrl.c: pid = kernel_thread(event_thread, NULL, 0); ./drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c: if (kernel_thread(pnp_dock_thread, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL) > 0) ./drivers/s390/net/lcs.c: kernel_thread(lcs_recovery, (void *) card, SIGCHLD); ./drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c: kernel_thread(qeth_register_ip_addresses, (void *)card,SIGCHLD); ./drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c: retval = kernel_thread(zfcp_erp_thread, adapter, SIGCHLD); ./drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_scsi_host.c: res = kernel_thread(sas_queue_thread, sas_ha, 0); ./drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c: int ret = kernel_thread(usbatm_do_heavy_init, instance, CLONE_KERNEL); ./drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c: usb_err(instance, "%s: failed to create kernel_thread (%d)!\n", __func__, ret); ./fs/afs/cmservice.c: ret = kernel_thread(kafscmd, NULL, 0); ./fs/afs/kafsasyncd.c: ret = kernel_thread(kafsasyncd, NULL, 0); ./fs/afs/kafstimod.c: ret = kernel_thread(kafstimod, NULL, 0); ./fs/cifs/connect.c: rc = (int)kernel_thread((void *)(void *)cifs_demultiplex_thread, srvTcp, ./fs/jffs/inode-v23.c: c->thread_pid = kernel_thread (jffs_garbage_collect_thread, ./fs/jffs2/background.c: pid = kernel_thread(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES); ./fs/lockd/clntlock.c: if (kernel_thread(reclaimer, host, CLONE_KERNEL) < 0) ./fs/nfs/delegation.c: status = kernel_thread(recall_thread, &data, CLONE_KERNEL); ./net/bluetooth/bnep/core.c: err = kernel_thread(bnep_session, s, CLONE_KERNEL); ./net/bluetooth/cmtp/core.c: err = kernel_thread(cmtp_session, session, CLONE_KERNEL); ./net/bluetooth/hidp/core.c: err = kernel_thread(hidp_session, session, CLONE_KERNEL); ./net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c: kernel_thread(rfcomm_run, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL); ./net/core/pktgen.c: err = kernel_thread((void *)pktgen_thread_worker, (void *)t, ./net/core/pktgen.c: printk("pktgen: kernel_thread() failed for cpu %d\n", t->cpu); ./net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c: if ((pid = kernel_thread(sync_thread, startup, 0)) < 0) { ./net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c: if ((pid = kernel_thread(fork_sync_thread, &startup, 0)) < 0) { ./net/rxrpc/krxiod.c: return kernel_thread(rxrpc_krxiod, NULL, 0); ./net/rxrpc/krxsecd.c: return kernel_thread(rxrpc_krxsecd, NULL, 0); ./net/rxrpc/krxtimod.c: ret = kernel_thread(krxtimod, NULL, 0); ./net/sunrpc/svc.c: error = kernel_thread((int (*)(void *)) func, rqstp, 0); - 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/