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/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
