linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/1] schedule removal of FUTEX

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Date:	Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:27:16 +0100
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	akpm@...l.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, drepper@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] schedule removal of FUTEX_FD

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 15:09 -0800, akpm@...l.org wrote:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
> 
> Apparently FUTEX_FD is unfixably racy and nothing uses it (or if it does, it
> shouldn't).
> 
> Add a warning printk, give any remaining users six months to migrate off it.
> 
> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>

ACK. 

Can you add it to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt too ?

	tglx


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