From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year,
after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan
to do over the next month.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff -puN Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~deprecate-the-kernel_thread-export Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
--- devel/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt~deprecate-the-kernel_thread-export	2006-03-11 17:36:28.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt	2006-03-11 17:36:57.000000000 -0800
@@ -116,6 +116,17 @@ Who:	Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org
 
 ---------------------------
 
+What:	remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread)
+When:	August 2006
+Files:	arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c
+Why:	kernel_thread is a low-level implementation detail.  Drivers should
+        use the <linux/kthread.h> API instead which shields them from
+	implementation details and provides a higherlevel interface that
+	prevents bugs and code duplication
+Who:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
 What:	EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_hash)
 When:	January 2006
 Why:	Too low-level interface.  Use lookup_one_len or lookup_create instead.
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