Re: Dead & Dying interfaces

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 18:47, 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.
> 
> sleep_on, sleep_on_timeout, interruptible_sleep_on,
> 	interruptible_sleep_on_timeout
>  -> use wait_event interfaces

We need to fix wait_event first, probably to do event variables of some
kind (wait_nonzero_interruptible() etc).

get_cpu is the wrong thing in several places too