Re: Dead & Dying interfaces

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:47:25PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> We forgot to remove a lot of crap interfaces during 2.5 development.
> Let's start a list now so we don't forget during 2.7.
> This list is a combination of interfaces which have gone during 2.5 and
> interfaces that should go during 2.7.  Think of it as a `updating your
> driver/filesystem to sane code' guide.

It's very possible (and in fact bugfixing) to incrementally convert
callers of these interfaces, even during freezes or stable releases.
A bugfix is a bugfix. =)

Cheers,
Bill