Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:05:33 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: overdue items in feature-removal-schedule
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:58:07 -0500
Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:

> Linus, Andrew, Christoph,
> 
> There are 29 listed items in feature-removal-schedule.txt.  11 of those have
> dates or kernel versions that have passed, including this one:
> 
> What:	remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
> When:	August 2006

That means they were proposed a long time ago and people were given
plenty of time to stop using them. 
> 
> One feature (removal of sys_sysctl) is listed for September 2010: are we
> really able to predict the future with this much accuracy?

The sysctl one is fantasy - its a kernel/user ABI so isn't going to be
going anywhere in a hurry.
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