Re: [PATCH] __deprecated_for_modules: panic_timeout

[Steven Rostedt]

> tree 10b2b90d2fd270d86f381a06e535736ea7c16792
> parent 24622efd11fc5ee569b008b9f89e5e268265811b
> author Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:01:44 -0800
> committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxx> Mon, 07 Nov 2005
> 23:54:08
> -0800
>
> [PATCH] __deprecated_for_modules: panic_timeout
>
> This looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly be
> using.
> Give panic_timeout the twelve-month treatment.

Hi,

I found a user of panic_timeout.  The module diskdump:

 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=110436

It uses the panic_timeout to actually implement the timeout after it
completes the dump.

diskdump is a light weight crash dump utility which works great for my
embedded devices that don't have much resources.  I don't know if it is
still maintained (I CC'd the reported author), but I'm hacking it quite a
bit.  The last release (1.0) was based off of 2.6.9.  I'm bringing it up
to 2.6.16 with some major changes.

Not sure if anyone cares about this module, but I felt like I should
report of one user.  But since the diskdump needs to modify the kernel
anyway, it could just remove the deprecated warning or export
panic_timeout itself.  So this isn't really an issue.

Just sending an FYI.

-- Steve


>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
>
>  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |    8 ++++++++
>  include/linux/kernel.h                     |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


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