Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jan 06 2005 - 21:07:00 EST


On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:29:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Fine. Completely agree. Sometimes people do need to be forced to make
> such changes - I don't think anyone would disagree with that.
>
> What's under discussion here is "how to do it". Do we just remove things
> when we notice them, or do we give (say) 12 months notice?

Remove when we notice with a short (measured in weeks) period where that
removal happens only in -mm. It's a price people have to pay for not
submitting their code upstream.
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