31.08.2013 15:42, Ian Kent wrote: [...] > By leaving a Kconfig and Makefile in fs/autofs4 (to build autofs4.ko) > with a deprication message sub-system maintainers and other users will > make any needed changes before these are removed after two kernel versions. > IMHO the presence of the warning is reason enough to leave a build stub > rather than do a straight out rename. Why do you want to continue building autofs4.ko? (or allowing to) What's actually wrong with a stright rename? If the new module can be auto-loaded by both name (by providing an alias), there's no need to keep ability to build autofs4.ko, I think. Well, maybe except of the case when autofs is needed in initramfs (like for systemd). For this, indeed, you can keep autofs4.ko which is a dummy depending on autofs.ko... > Ian Kent (10): > autofs4 - coding style fixes > autofs4 - fix string.h include in auto_dev-ioctl.h > autofs4 - move linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h to uapi/linux > autofs - merge auto_fs.h and auto_fs4.h > autofs - use autofs instead of autofs4 everywhere > autofs - copy autofs4 to autofs > autofs - create autofs Kconfig and Makefile > autofs - update fs/autofs4/Kconfig > autofs - update fs/autofs4/Makefile > autofs - delete fs/autofs4 By doing it this way, you're losing all git history. If you perform stright rename and git detects it, you can use, eg, git log --follow to see whole hostory across rename. This way you create new files without history. So I strongly shuggest actually renaming the subdirectory (together with appropriate kconfig/makefile changes so things are bisectable), and creating the stubs after this. Thanks, /mjt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
