Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751805AbWJ1Iez (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:34:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751999AbWJ1Iez (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:34:55 -0400 Received: from 85.8.24.16.se.wasadata.net ([85.8.24.16]:58770 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751805AbWJ1Iey (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:34:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4543162B.7030701@drzeus.cx> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:34:51 +0200 From: Pierre Ossman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: Christoph Hellwig , Jiri Slaby , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , Dominik Brodowski , Harald Welte , Arjan van de Ven , Jean Delvare Subject: Re: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes References: <45324658.1000203@gmail.com> <20061016133352.GA23391@lst.de> <200610242124.49911.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200610242124.49911.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1194 Lines: 30 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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? > What should be used to replace it? The MMC block driver uses it to manage the block device queue. I am not that intimate with the block layer so I do not know the proper fix. Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org - 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/