[PATCH 1/2] cpukit/task{set,get}note.c: Remove obsolete Notepads

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Tue Dec 22 14:22:47 UTC 2015



On 21/12/15 20:15, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2015 1:07 PM, "Sebastian Huber" 
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de 
> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
> >
> > Do we want to remove the task note functions so that an application 
> gets compiler and linker errors or warnings? Or do we make the 
> functions empty and return an error status code?
>
> These were really bad APIs long before SMP was a consideration. I 
> would be happy to see them completely gone.
>
> We need to capture their removal in a 4.12 release notes with 
> transition info. We weren't good at this for 4.11. Perhaps the manual 
> can replace the text section on them with a note they are gone as of 
> 4.12 and you should use TLS or keys.
>

I updated the tickets.

For the documentation, should we add a chapter for deprecated/removed 
directives or should we keep the documentation of deprecated/removed 
directives and mention their status in place?

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