linux-kernel - Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

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Date:	Tue, 01 May 2007 17:30:36 +0200
From:	Andre Tomt <andre@...t.net>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Subject: Re: so ... what *are* candidates for removal?

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   at the risk of spawning yet another thread and another flamefest,
> what *are* the kernel features that should be considered candidates
> for removal, either now or at some point in the future.
>
>   please, no discussions about mechanisms or kernel warnings or the
> like -- just the features whose value is nearing their end.  i'll even
> volunteer to collect all that info and summarize it here:
>
> http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Stuff_to_be_removed
>
> because that's just the kind of guy i am, and i have the week off, and
> i'm bored. :-)
>
> rday
>   
Already documented in the kernel tarball, see 
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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