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@@ -135,26 +135,8 @@ Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | |||
135 | 135 | ||
136 | --------------------------- | 136 | --------------------------- |
137 | 137 | ||
138 | What: filemap_nopage, filemap_populate | ||
139 | When: April 2007 | ||
140 | Why: These legacy interfaces no longer have any callers in the kernel and | ||
141 | any functionality provided can be provided with filemap_fault. The | ||
142 | removal schedule is short because they are a big maintainence burden | ||
143 | and have some bugs. | ||
144 | Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | ||
145 | |||
146 | --------------------------- | ||
147 | |||
148 | What: vm_ops.populate, install_page | ||
149 | When: April 2007 | ||
150 | Why: These legacy interfaces no longer have any callers in the kernel and | ||
151 | any functionality provided can be provided with vm_ops.fault. | ||
152 | Who: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | ||
153 | |||
154 | --------------------------- | ||
155 | |||
156 | What: vm_ops.nopage | 138 | What: vm_ops.nopage |
157 | When: February 2008, provided in-kernel callers have been converted | 139 | When: Soon, provided in-kernel callers have been converted |
158 | Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around | 140 | Why: This interface is replaced by vm_ops.fault, but it has been around |
159 | forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to | 141 | forever, is used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to |
160 | maintain. | 142 | maintain. |