linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Removal of FUTEX

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Message-ID: <517f3f820804181124o6354444cq696665f38a14ae4f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:24:08 +0200
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	"Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Removal of FUTEX_FD (and related code)

Hey Rusty,

On 4/18/08, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
>  Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:40:46 +0100
>
>  hi,
>
>  since FUTEX_FD was scheduled for removal in June 2007 lets remove it.
>  Google Code search found no users for it and NGPT was abandoned in 2003
>  according to IBM. futex.h is left untouched to make sure the id does
>  not get reassigned. Since queue_me() has no users left it is commented
>  out to avoid a warning, i didnt remove it completely since it is part
>  of the internal api (matching unqueue_me())
[...]

Please CC me on API changes...

Cheers,

Michael
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