On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 03:28:20PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:26:51 +0300 Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Subject: [PATCH v2] prctl: Deprecate non PR_SET_MM_MAP operations > > s/Deprecate/remove/ !
Thanks! > > > > Googling didn't reveal some other users of this operation > > so I think it should be safe to remove this interface. > > It does seem a bit sudden. We could just add a "this interface is > scheduled for removal" warning, then delete the code for real later in > the year. To give people time to migrate or to complain to us. Yes, I remember this rule of deprecation but taking into account how special this code is (and I spent significant amount of time trying to find a real example of its usage outside of criu) I think it should be safe to simply remove it. Surely I won't ever do this with some common syscall.
