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| author | Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> | 2008-07-25 01:48:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-25 10:53:45 -0700 |
| commit | dbda0de52618d13d1b927c7ba7bb839cfddc4e8c (patch) | |
| tree | 026bd6c9da6e6e81a21a6e47dcc738bddbb3fe22 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | e49859e71e0318b564de1546bdc30fab738f9deb (diff) | |
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pidns: remove find_task_by_pid, unused for a long time
It seems to me that it was a mistake marking this function as deprecated
and scheduling it for removal, rather than resolutely removing it after
the last caller's death.
Anyway - better late, then never.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 09c4a1efb8e3..721c71b86e06 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -138,24 +138,6 @@ Who: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> --------------------------- -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 <xemul@openvz.org> - ---------------------------- - What: ACPI procfs interface When: July 2008 Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008. |