Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754149AbXEAPBq (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 11:01:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754148AbXEAPBq (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 11:01:46 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:39489 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754011AbXEAPBl (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 11:01:41 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 74.109.98.66 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 11:01:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: so ... what *are* candidates for removal? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-36.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1085 Lines: 28 at the risk of spawning yet another thread and another flamefest, what *are* the kernel features that should be considered candidates for removal, either now or at some point in the future. please, no discussions about mechanisms or kernel warnings or the like -- just the features whose value is nearing their end. i'll even volunteer to collect all that info and summarize it here: http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Stuff_to_be_removed because that's just the kind of guy i am, and i have the week off, and i'm bored. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - 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/