linux-kernel - Re: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes

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Date:	Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:34:51 +0200
From:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...do.de>,
	Harald Welte <laforge@...filter.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 15:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:31:29PM +0159, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>> What:   remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
>>> When:   August 2006
>>> Who:    Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>> There are a lot of modular users left.  It'll go away as soon as these
>> users have disappeared.
> 
> It seems that most of the users that are left are for pretty obscure
> functionality, so I wouldn't expect that to happen so soon. Maybe we
> should mark it as __deprecated in the declaration?
> 

What should be used to replace it? The MMC block driver uses it to
manage the block device queue. I am not that intimate with the block
layer so I do not know the proper fix.

Rgds
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