linux-kernel - Scheduled removal of SA

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Message-ID: <20070512180703.GA22918@gollum.tnic>
Date:	Sat, 12 May 2007 20:07:04 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@...oo.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Scheduled removal of SA_xxx interrupt flags

Hi Andrew,

   i've been going over the interrupt-handling code and noticed that the SA_xxx
   interrupt flags are scheduled for removal sometime in 9/2007 with a prior
   grace period of 6 months for people to fix external stuff. In order to do so,
   a __deprecated inline function wraps those flags.
   What puzzles me is that the __deprecated-patches are only in -mm and not in
   mainline. Is the -mm-testing audience wide enough to cause userspace to fix
   their apps prior to the SA_xxx removal or am I missing something? I.e,
   shouldn't tglx's patches hit mainline first?

-- 
Regards/Gruß,
    Boris.
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