On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:06:12PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> >> index 498ff31..c5d7775 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> >> @@ -160,15 +160,6 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> ---------------------------
> >>
> >> -What: Interrupt only SA_* flags
> >> -When: September 2007
> >> -Why: The interrupt related SA_* flags are replaced by IRQF_* to move them
> >> - out of the signal namespace.
> >> -
> >> -Who: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> >> -
> >>
> >
> > NAK, the removal date is September 2007 so out of tree folks have some
> > time to fix their crap.
>
> This might be a good example of targeting a specific kernel version
> rather than a date, since anyone who can't fix this immediately with a
> simple search'n'replace is probably trying to support multiple kernels,
> and knowing that "2.6.24" (or whatever) is the cut-off version is more
> useful than "whatever kernel is current in Sept 2007".
Given that it's only just gone in, it's going to take a while for it to
trickle through peoples conciousnesses. Many people aren't aware of this
change yet - I'm picking people up when I review their patches at the
moment.
September 2007 should, by my estimation, be around the time of the
2.6.23-rc releases, so people have two kernel versions to fix their stuff
up. That's not unreasonable.
Finally, a date by when people have to have their code updated or it
breaks is more managable from the point of view of planning - you
know when it's potentially going to happen. You don't know when the
2.6.23 release is going to be, except "sometime in the last half of
this year."
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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