Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763817AbYBMWz0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:55:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765444AbYBMWzK (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:55:10 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:33791 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763820AbYBMWzI (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:55:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:54:05 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Adrian Bunk Cc: harvey.harrison@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, xemul@openvz.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] feature-removal: add documentation for exported symbols going away Message-Id: <20080213145405.35fb5733.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080213224308.GD12383@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <1202941327.18204.11.camel@brick> <20080213223455.GB12383@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080213224308.GD12383@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 599 Lines: 14 On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:43:08 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: > There's simply no point in treating the removal of exports differently > from the many other API breaks we have in each release. I have repeatedly and relatively patiently explained to you what the point is. Simply saying that there isn't one doesn't actually make it go away. -- 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/