Re: [PATCH][Trivial] Fix up version number reference ininclude/trace/events/power.h

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sat Feb 04 2012 - 10:15:25 EST


On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 13:51 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 2/3/2012 1:42 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> >>>> -/* This code will be removed after deprecation time exceeded (2.6.41) */
> >>>> +/* This code will be removed after deprecation time exceeded (3.1) */
> >>>
> >>> Shouldn't the real fix be to remove this code? What's the use of
> >>> changing the version number that this code will be removed from, when
> >>> the change won't get in until after the version that this code should
> >>> have been removed?
> >>>
> >>> This is like updating 2014 calendars to say the world will end in 2012.
> >>>
> >> Heh, yeah, in a way you are right. But we have lots of code in the kernel
> >> that says it will be removed at <some date in the past>, so I just figured
> >> that if this code ends up hanging around it should at least display the
> >> correct version number for when it /should/ have been removed.
> >> The actual removal I'll leave up to others.
> >
> > Funny thing. Okay, this doesn't seem to be in linux-next, so I am taking
> > it.
> >
> > Steven, planning to drop the code in a near future? :)
>
> we shouldn't be dropping these yet.. tools are still using them.
> and there really is no cost to keeping them either.

Then the correct fix is to remove the comment, as it is incorrect.

-- Steve


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