Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755095AbXEBLwx (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 07:52:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755112AbXEBLwx (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 07:52:53 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45867 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755092AbXEBLww (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 07:52:52 -0400 From: Neil Brown To: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 21:52:08 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17976.31592.666183.353731@notabene.brown> Cc: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." , Stefan Richter , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andre Tomt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal? In-Reply-To: message from Robert P. J. Day on Wednesday May 2 References: <46375D1C.4050404@tomt.net> <10590.1178037443@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <4637C04E.4070306@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <46385EF8.8040005@s5r6.in-berlin.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-face: [Gw_3E*Gng}4rRrKRYotwlE?.2|**#s9D On Wed, 2 May 2007, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > > argh. the whole point of this discussion is to come to a *consensus* > on what should be in that feature removal file. there is no point in > creating and submitting patches, either to update that file or remove > kernel features, until enough people *agree*. > > at the risk of being head-bangingly repetitive, that's what the wiki > page is for: > > http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Stuff_to_be_removed > > go. read. comment. update. add. remove. it's a wiki. don't make > me pull this car over and explain it. :-) Unfortunately, this community is not founded on the concept of 'wiki'. It is founded on the concept of 'email'. That is were most discussions happen. So if you want to start a discussion (and your topic certainly seems relevant) I suspect you will get more participation if you keep it in the mailing list. So post a list of features that are apparently due for removal and ask "can I actually get rid of these" (or whatever you want to ask). and then base on the response, do something else, maybe a revised list, maybe a patch, maybe send it again in CAPITALS because nobody notice when it was in lower-case :-) Wiki's certainly have there place, but I don't think this is it. NeilBrown - 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/