linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pidns: remove the useless function is_container

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Message-ID: <20121119143307.GA4620@mail.hallyn.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:33:07 +0000
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pidns: remove the useless function is_container_init

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com):
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com> writes:
> 
> > Quoting Gao feng (gaofeng@...fujitsu.com):
> >> since commit 1cdcbec1a3372c0c49c59d292e708fd07b509f18,
> >> is_container_init has no used for a long time.
> >> 
> >> just remove it.
> >
> > Only thing is it's being exported, so I think it needs to go through
> > deprecation.
> 
> Exports do not create an ABI.  No internal kernel users are enough.

Ok.  I personally don't know of any out of tree users anyway, just seemed
like a warning for one cycle would be friendly :)

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>

thanks,
-serge
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