Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:18:36 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] feature-removal: add documentation for exported
 symbols going away
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> Unexports are done immediately when there's a subsystem maintainer 
> taking a patch and deprecation periods are required when a patch has to 
> go through you...

Agreed - with the expect of stuff which is used in tree or forms part of
a logical exported API we should just throw them out without messing. The
only exceptions I can see that make sense are

- Where a subsystem maintainer says not to
- Where we know that a commonly used out of tree module needs it

Most of the excess symbols should thus just go away. Its pretty unlikely
that they are being used.

Alan
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