linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/5] cio: Update documentation.

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Message-ID: <20070521140025.7b9344a5@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 14:00:25 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] cio: Update documentation.

On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:53:22 +0100,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:51:19PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
> > 
> > - read_dev_chars()/read_conf_data() are deprecated. Don't document them, but
> >   advise to issue the channel program from the driver itself.
> 
> What's the reason these function aren't just removed?  They're just unused
> bloat right now.

They had been a documented and exported interface for ages, and I
didn't feel like breaking external modules without some warning
beforehand.
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