Re: [Patch] Removal of FUTEX_FD

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Jan 29 2008 - 00:50:11 EST


On Friday 25 January 2008 20:40:46 Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> hi,
>
> since FUTEX_FD was scheduled for removal in June 2007 lets remove it.
> Google Code search found no users for it and NGPT was abandoned in 2003
> according to IBM. futex.h is left untouched to make sure the id does
> not get reassigned. Since queue_me() has no users left it is commented
> out to avoid a warning, i didnt remove it completely since it is part
> of the internal api (matching unqueue_me())

Thanks, I've queued this with a futher cleanup (rename __queue_me to queue_me,
add comments, and remove the old one entirely).

Thanks,
Rusty.
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