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[PATCH] md: mark START_ARRAY deprecated with a date

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This was marked deprecated "after 2.6" back in the 2.5 days.  But now it
seems there isn't going to be any "after 2.6", and we deprecate by date
now.  So set a date.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown 2005-11-15 00:09:11 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@ -140,3 +140,12 @@ What: EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
When: January 2006
Why: Too low-level interface. Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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What: START_ARRAY ioctl for md
When: July 2006
Files: drivers/md/md.c
Why: Not reliable by design - can fail when most needed.
Alternatives exist
Who: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

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drivers/md/md.c
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@ -3156,7 +3156,7 @@ static int md_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
if (cnt > 0 ) {
printk(KERN_WARNING
"md: %s(pid %d) used deprecated START_ARRAY ioctl. "
"This will not be supported beyond 2.6\n",
"This will not be supported beyond July 2006\n",
current->comm, current->pid);
cnt--;
}