Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 14:00:25 +0200
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] cio: Update documentation.
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On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:53:22 +0100,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:51:19PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
> > 
> > - read_dev_chars()/read_conf_data() are deprecated. Don't document them, but
> >   advise to issue the channel program from the driver itself.
> 
> What's the reason these function aren't just removed?  They're just unused
> bloat right now.

They had been a documented and exported interface for ages, and I
didn't feel like breaking external modules without some warning
beforehand.
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