> Anyway, I'm essentially saying that I'd like to be 100% sure we have a > guarantee before dropping all these. You can not be absolutely sure. There are various implementation details which will eventually need further considerations. I hope that a reasonable confidence can be achieved here. >> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. > > What script? I published scripts for static source code analysis in March 2004. > Hand-rolled I guess? An extended version found some update candidates in source files for Linux according to the software development status of "next-20141226". My approach is still incomplete at the moment. Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html