On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 20:53 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > --------------------------- > > > > What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING > > When: June 2006 > > Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january > > 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's > > not, > > the option should just go away entirely. > > Who: Arjan van de Ven > > > > Patch submitted to Arjan, maybe 2.6.25? > > Ingo picked it up, but no rush for .25, .26 is fine for this as well >
OK, it shouldn't be any change from what's there now, but no rush. > > > > What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports > > (temporary transition config option provided until then) > > The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. > > When: before 2.6.19 > > Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary > > and are often a sign of "wrong API" > > Who: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > this is an ongoing work; symbols get marked unused and then garbage collected > when they're due; for example akpm has several of that kind in his pile right > now How do they get marked? As this is an ongoing effort, should this be moved to the top of the file, and the actual symbols+date be listed? That would make it easy to figure out what's going away. Something like the following (grep found me two example symbols) Harvey --- From: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PATCH] feature-removal: document symbols going away Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 3a46d1f..0c418e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -5,6 +5,21 @@ the work. When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also be removed from this file. --------------------------- +What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports + (temporary transition config option provided until then) + The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. +Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary + and are often a sign of "wrong API" +Who: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + +When: 2.6.25 +fs/open.c:sys_open +fs/read_write.c:sys_read + +When: 2.6.26 + + +--------------------------- What: MXSER When: December 2007 @@ -137,16 +152,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------- -What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports - (temporary transition config option provided until then) - The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. -When: before 2.6.19 -Why: Unused symbols are both increasing the size of the kernel binary - and are often a sign of "wrong API" -Who: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - ---------------------------- - What: USB driver API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL When: February 2008 Files: include/linux/usb.h, drivers/usb/core/driver.c -- 1.5.4.rc4.1142.gf5a97 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
