Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:35:39 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
       Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:15:24 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:34:49 -0800
> David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
> > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt has warned about this since
> > August
> 
> Nobody reads that.

Ugh, I read it.

> Please, wherever possible, put a nice printk("this is going away") in the code
> when planning these things.

Can notices go in both places, or is in the source code (printk)
now the preferred way?

I think that we can point people to Doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt
easier (and more effectively) than we can source code (or noisy kernel
logs).

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~Randy
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