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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>, <perex@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] unexport sys_{open,read}
Date: Sunday, September 9, 2007 - 7:18 pm

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:41:18PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

Andrew wants a deprecation period for these symbols where the few users 
are most likely doing something wrong when using them, but if someone 
e.g. changes the IRQ API in a way that breaks most external modules no 
deprecation period is required.

If the kernel should get some module API stability processes like 
EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL() deprecation periods have to be made mandatory
for *all* API changes and removals.

But forcing EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL on me while allowing other people to do 
bigger API changes without deprecation periods is not a policy, it's a 
personal offence.


cu
Adrian

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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)