From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [rfc] 2.6.19-rc1-git5: consolidation of file backed fault handlers From: Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: <20061010150142.GE2431@wotan.suse.de> References: <20061010121314.19693.75503.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20061010143342.GA5580@infradead.org> <20061010150142.GE2431@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:09:06 +0200 Message-Id: <1160496546.3000.315.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linux Memory Management , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel List-ID: > \ What: vm_ops.nopage > -When: October 2008, provided in-kernel callers have been converted > +When: October 2007, provided in-kernel callers have been converted > Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around > forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to > maintain. but a year is a really long time; 6 months would be a lot more reasonable.. (it's not as if most external modules will switch until it's really gone.. more notice isn't really going to help that at all; at least make the kernel printk once on the first use of this so that they notice!) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org