On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:49:29 -0400 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:45:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Obviously, multiple repetition of the reasons why this is a poor idea > > didn't sink in, so I won't trouble you with another repetition. > > Sorry, but there's absolutely no point of keeping dead code around for > out of tree code. yes, there _are_ reasons. Two of which are: - we inconvenience the maintainers and the users of that out-of-tree code - we drive away testers. People who are dependent upon out-of-tree code cannot test kernel.org kernels. This happens! People have reported it! > It just means we keep dead weight around, that we > can't test and thus won't fix. It's not actually doing a service to > anyone. We mark it EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL() in 2.6.28. We remove it from 2.6.29. That solves the above problems and nothing could be simpler to do. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
