Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933303AbYBAFCq (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:02:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757410AbYBAEzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:55:14 -0500 Received: from mga10.intel.com ([192.55.52.92]:2477 "EHLO fmsmga102.fm.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934997AbYBAEzM (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:55:12 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,288,1199692800"; d="scan'208";a="294811655" Message-ID: <47A2A5D8.4080700@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:53:44 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (Windows/20071210) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Harvey Harrison CC: Andrew Morton , David Miller , Jiri Slaby , Pavel Machek , Christoph Hellwig , Dominik Brodowski , Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Nick Piggin , Stephen Hemminger , LKML , Randy Dunlap , Len Brown Subject: Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25 References: <1201829922.23523.68.camel@brick> In-Reply-To: <1201829922.23523.68.camel@brick> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1201 Lines: 30 > > --------------------------- > > What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING > When: June 2006 > Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january > 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not, > the option should just go away entirely. > Who: Arjan van de Ven > > Patch submitted to Arjan, maybe 2.6.25? Ingo picked it up, but no rush for .25, .26 is fine for this as well > > What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports > (temporary transition config option provided until then) > The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. > When: before 2.6.19 > Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary > and are often a sign of "wrong API" > Who: Arjan van de Ven this is an ongoing work; symbols get marked unused and then garbage collected when they're due; for example akpm has several of that kind in his pile right now -- 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/