Re: [PATCH] add feature-removal-schedule.txt documentation

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:56:34PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:26:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Which begs the question "how do we ever get rid of these things when we
> > have no projected date for Linux-2.8"?
> > 
> > I'd propose:
> > 
> > a) Create Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt which describes
> >    things which are going away, when, why, who is involved, etc.
> 
> Ok, I'll bite, here's a patch that does just that.  Look good?

another item:


What:	unused exports that don't make sense as general APIs
When:	as soon as noticed
Files:	all
Why:	Unused functions bloat the kernel and wrong exported functions
	will make external driver authors write code that's buggy and
	unmaintainable.
Who:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> & others.
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