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Message-ID: <20090118151157.09aaff4f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:11:57 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pids: kill now unused signal_struct-> __pgrp/__session
 and friends

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:33:54 +0100
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:

> On top of
> 	[PATCH] autofs: fix the wrong usage of the deprecated task_pgrp_nr()
> 	[PATCH] autofs4: turn ->oz_pgrp into "struct pid *"
> 	[PATCH] coda: alloc_upcall: s/task_pgrp_nr/task_pgrp_vnr/
> 
> task_pgrp_nr() was wiped from fs/ code recently, task_session_nr() has no
> callers since 2e2ba22ea4fd4bb85f0fa37c521066db6775cbef. __pgrp/__session
> become write-only. Kill them and the related helpers.
> 
> The change in drivers/char/tty_io.c is cosmetic, but hopefully makes sense
> anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

TTY parts Acked-by: Alan Cox <number6@...-village.bc.nu>
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