On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 14:04 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:55:35PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > > In linux-next you will find that those fields are completely unused and > > the kernel can be compiled without them with 0 lose of functionality > > (they are still used in linus's kernel by the audit system) > > > > The only reason I didn't remove them entirely is because the inotify > > kernel interface is EXPORT_SYMBOL. I plan to leave it around for a > > little bit until I'm sure out of tree users don't exist or at least had > > enough time to realize they need to use fsnotify. > > There's absolutely no reason to keep them around, we never guaranteed > API stability and never cared about out of tree modules. And if any > out of tree modules are out there using it they won't notice they need > to stop using it before you removed it. So just nuke them entirely > in the for-2.6.32 queue. Will nuke entirely in .32 -- 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
