linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] workqueue: remove the unused helper in .h

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Message-ID: <20130605072441.GD7303@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 5 Jun 2013 00:24:41 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] workqueue: remove the unused helper in .h

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:11:08PM +0800, Michael Wang wrote:
> __cancel_delayed_work(), flush_work_sync() and flush_delayed_work_sync()
> are no longer used by anyone, just remove them.

These are deprecated interfaces which used to be necessary because
they functioned differently.  Keeping them around is mostly a courtesy
to out-of-tree developers as workqueue tends to be used by a lot of
them too.  The patch description is rather misleading, system_nrt_*wq
should be removed together, and I kinda wanna keep them for one more
cycle, so no cookie for this one either.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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