linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert oom rewrite series

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Message-ID: <18510.1289966681@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:04:41 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...gle.com>,
	"Figo.zhang" <figo1802@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert oom rewrite series

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:55:51 GMT, Alan Cox said:
> > How does one mark it apropriately?
> > The commit 51b1bd2 (oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable, see below) 
> > added it to feature-removal-schedule.txt, a patch for
> > Documentation/ABI has also been provided in the meantime, if i'm not
> > mistaken. 
> 
> Yes - so why is it spewing crap, annoying users and trying to irritate
> application authors. It's not 2012 yet.

Aug 2012 is only 6 kernel releases or so away....

Presumably the whinging is so we start tracking down the offending userspace
and getting it fixed before 2012 gets here.  Sticking the warning in just one
or two kernel releases before it becomes official leads to "I can't run the new
kernel because my userspace isn't patched yet".  We really can't win here,
we don't whinge and stuff doesn't get tracked down and fixed, we do whinge
and that gets people upset too.

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