Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Fri Aug 31 2007 - 10:26:05 EST


On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:36:48 CDT, Rob Landley said:

> Could you mention it in feature-removal-schedule.txt? (People check that for
> warning of upcoming changes that impact existing code. They may not notice
> something elsewhere after they've got it working...)
>
> (Also, sorting feature-removal-schedule.txt by date would be really nice. The
> sucker's gotten huge...)

Maybe it's time we actually start heaving stuff over the side, especially
that stuff that the removal date has gone by?

What: dev->power.power_state
When: July 2007
What: Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
When: December 2006
What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
When: August 2006
What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
When: June 2006
What: eepro100 network driver
When: January 2007

5 out of 26 things - close to 20% - is already overdue for nuking. In some
cases, over a year overdue.

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