Re: [PATCH] Removal of FUTEX_FD (and related code)

[Michael Kerrisk]

Hey Rusty,

On 4/18/08, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
>  Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:40:46 +0100
>
>  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())
[...]

Please CC me on API changes...

Cheers,

Michael
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