From 4fcd607c5614ffb62b4012682d7223c1e93423b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:41:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Record the death of ModuleProvier and GhostLinkage in the
 release notes and give upgrade instructions.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@94723 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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 docs/ReleaseNotes.html | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
index 8df6cfc95f6..b373e9f14c3 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
@@ -608,7 +608,24 @@ from the previous release.</p>
 API changes are:</p>
 
 <ul>
-<li>...</li>
+<li><tt>ModuleProvider</tt> has been <a
+href="http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=rev&revision=94686">removed</a>
+and its methods moved to <tt>Module</tt> and <tt>GlobalValue</tt>.
+Most clients can remove uses of <tt>ExistingModuleProvider</tt>,
+replace <tt>getBitcodeModuleProvider</tt> with
+<tt>getLazyBitcodeModule</tt>, and pass their <tt>Module</tt> to
+functions that used to accept <tt>ModuleProvider</tt>.  Clients who
+wrote their own <tt>ModuleProvider</tt>s will need to derive from
+<tt>GVMaterializer</tt> instead and use
+<tt>Module::setMaterializer</tt> to attach it to a
+<tt>Module</tt>.</li>
+
+<li><tt>GhostLinkage</tt> has given up the ghost.
+<tt>GlobalValue</tt>s that have not yet been read from their backing
+storage have the same linkage they will have after being read in.
+Clients must replace calls to
+<tt>GlobalValue::hasNotBeenReadFromBitcode</tt> with
+<tt>GlobalValue::isMaterializable</tt>.</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div>
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