Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760986AbYBMWng (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:43:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754419AbYBMWn0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:43:26 -0500 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:50855 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753526AbYBMWnY (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:43:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:43:08 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Harvey Harrison Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , David Miller , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Pavel Emelyanov , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] feature-removal: add documentation for exported symbols going away Message-ID: <20080213224308.GD12383@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <1202941327.18204.11.camel@brick> <20080213223455.GB12383@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080213223455.GB12383@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 26 BTW: Sorry and it's not your fault if my answer was a bit harsh. Your patch forces a nonsense that until now only Andrew tried to enforce (which BTW made me avoiding him whenever possible and never looking at -mm anymore). There's simply no point in treating the removal of exports differently from the many other API breaks we have in each release. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- 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/