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Commit e8a00334 authored Nov 15, 2005 by NeilBrown Committed by Linus Torvalds Nov 15, 2005

[PATCH] md: mark START_ARRAY deprecated with a date



This was marked deprecated "after 2.6" back in the 2.5 days.  But now it
seems there isn't going to be any "after 2.6", and we deprecate by date
now.  So set a date.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 1887b935

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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		@@ -140,3 +140,12 @@ What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
		When: January 2006
		Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
		Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

		---------------------------

		What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md
		When: July 2006
		Files: drivers/md/md.c
		Why: Not reliable by design - can fail when most needed.
		Alternatives exist
		Who: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

drivers/md/md.c

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		@@ -3156,7 +3156,7 @@ static int md_ioctl(struct inode inode, struct file file,
		if (cnt > 0 ) {
		printk(KERN_WARNING
		"md: %s(pid %d) used deprecated START_ARRAY ioctl. "
		"This will not be supported beyond 2.6\n",
		"This will not be supported beyond July 2006\n",
		current->comm, current->pid);
		cnt--;
		}