Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:49:31 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace |
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:35:39 -0800 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:15:24 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:34:49 -0800 > > David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote: > > > > > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt has warned about this since > > > August > > > > Nobody reads that. > > Ugh, I read it. > > > Please, wherever possible, put a nice printk("this is going away") in the code > > when planning these things. > > Can notices go in both places, or is in the source code (printk) > now the preferred way?
I think printks grab a lot more attention. It's not surprising that people get surprised when the feature they're using goes away.
Plus they may not even know that that they're using the feature. A printk fixes that.
> I think that we can point people to Doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt > easier (and more effectively) than we can source code (or noisy kernel > logs).
Hopefully developers who see the printk will think to look in feature-removal-schedule.txt for more details.
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