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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>, <perex@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}
Date: Monday, September 10, 2007 - 11:14 am

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:23:24 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:


here's the skinny: 99% of the external module developers won't notice
until they're gone, even with the warning. And that's an optimistic
estimate. Warnings don't work for this.

All this kind of thing buys us is an excuse so that we can say "but we
warned  you for 3 months". It doesn't actually change anything else.

Maybe I'm too pessimistic in my assumption that external open module
writers don't actually follow mainline closely; and maybe part of me
would love for them to follow it closer, so close that they would even
consider submitting their driver for it. But sadly from experience...
warnings dont' work. Only when things break hard people notice.
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[-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 9, 4:25 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Sep 9, 4:39 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, David Miller, (Mon Sep 10, 8:18 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Tue Sep 18, 10:10 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Sep 10, 8:21 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Sun Sep 9, 5:59 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Sep 10, 5:08 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 5:23 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Sep 10, 11:14 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Dave Jones, (Tue Sep 25, 5:17 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Al Viro, (Mon Sep 10, 8:43 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 1:25 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 3:58 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 4:17 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 6:18 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Rene Herman, (Mon Sep 10, 6:15 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 6:41 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Rene Herman, (Mon Sep 10, 6:56 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Alan Cox, (Mon Sep 10, 1:44 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 10, 1:54 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Greg KH, (Thu Sep 13, 7:23 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Alan Cox, (Mon Sep 10, 8:31 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Sep 10, 8:03 am)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 9, 6:22 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Sep 9, 6:41 pm)
Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 9, 7:18 pm)