On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 09:28 +0800, Cong Wang wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote: >> > The file feature-removal-schedule.txt is ignored by most people except >> > for people that add to it. It's more of a global TODO list for >> > developers than being anything useful by anyone. >> > >> > Add a feature removal of removing the feature-removal-schedule.txt. >> > >> >> Hi, Steven, >> >> I sometimes remind people to remove features scheduled in this file, >> by sending a proposed patch. ;) > > At Kernel Summit, Linus went on a rant about this file. He said he hates > it and is totally useless. Basically, it is only used by us developers, > and is not used by normal users. As it is a dumping ground for all > developers, this file becomes the biggest conflict during merges that > Linus does. > > There are better ways to tell users something is about to go away. My > preference is a nasty WARN_ON_ONCE() in the code when the feature is > used. People tend to report call traces, and you can either tell the > person, "don't use this" or you know that it is something that is > actually used and you can't remove it. >
I don't think feature-removal-schedule.txt is for kernel users, it is a kind of a TODO list for kernel developers. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/