From 35bab756b49bd148760a3bbd3c907cd74754dbb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:30:49 -0700 Subject: The scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimer As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 5a1f0319add..54d0e72ce2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -117,18 +117,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk --------------------------- -What: Usage of invalid timevals in setitimer -When: March 2007 -Why: POSIX requires to validate timevals in the setitimer call. This - was never done by Linux. The invalid (e.g. negative timevals) were - silently converted to more or less random timeouts and intervals. - Until the removal a per boot limited number of warnings is printed - and the timevals are sanitized. - -Who: Thomas Gleixner - ---------------------------- - What: Unused EXPORT_SYMBOL/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exports (temporary transition config option provided until then) The transition config option will also be removed at the same time. -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258