X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.info/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffeature-removal-schedule.txt;h=3c35d452b1a968439cdbb2b270bcaa75b26b762d;hb=02cdf0827b61d51f0e9cc1b5ddd486950830ba08;hp=448729fcaeb1d0b9557333d54cef7ef7f1628fe5;hpb=d02aacff4467806ee56f147ac8eff6911d95811a;p=cascardo%2Flinux.git diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 448729fcaeb1..3c35d452b1a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -128,15 +128,6 @@ Who: Arjan van de Ven --------------------------- -What: vm_ops.nopage -When: Soon, 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. -Who: Nick Piggin - ---------------------------- - What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment When: October 2008 Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and @@ -147,6 +138,24 @@ Who: Kay Sievers --------------------------- +What: find_task_by_pid +When: 2.6.26 +Why: With pid namespaces, calling this funciton will return the + wrong task when called from inside a namespace. + + The best way to save a task pid and find a task by this + pid later, is to find this task's struct pid pointer (or get + it directly from the task) and call pid_task() later. + + If someone really needs to get a task by its pid_t, then + he most likely needs the find_task_by_vpid() to get the + task from the same namespace as the current task is in, but + this may be not so in general. + +Who: Pavel Emelyanov + +--------------------------- + What: ACPI procfs interface When: July 2008 Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.