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SubjectRe: [PATCH][Trivial] Fix up version number reference in include/trace/events/power.h
On 2/3/2012 1:42 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
>>>> -/* This code will be removed after deprecation time exceeded (2.6.41) */
>>>> +/* This code will be removed after deprecation time exceeded (3.1) */
>>>
>>> Shouldn't the real fix be to remove this code? What's the use of
>>> changing the version number that this code will be removed from, when
>>> the change won't get in until after the version that this code should
>>> have been removed?
>>>
>>> This is like updating 2014 calendars to say the world will end in 2012.
>>>
>> Heh, yeah, in a way you are right. But we have lots of code in the kernel
>> that says it will be removed at <some date in the past>, so I just figured
>> that if this code ends up hanging around it should at least display the
>> correct version number for when it /should/ have been removed.
>> The actual removal I'll leave up to others.
>
> Funny thing. Okay, this doesn't seem to be in linux-next, so I am taking
> it.
>
> Steven, planning to drop the code in a near future? :)

we shouldn't be dropping these yet.. tools are still using them.
and there really is no cost to keeping them either.


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