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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 20:01:47 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dead & Dying interfaces
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 05:55:35PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:47:25PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
>  > This list is a combination of interfaces which have gone during 2.5 and
>  > interfaces that should go during 2.7.  Think of it as a `updating your
>  > driver/filesystem to sane code' guide.
> 
> Adding printk (KERN_DEBUG "Usage of check_region() is deprecated");
> to such interfaces may be an idea. For some of them, however it
> is probably a bad idea if the logs get flooded with zillions of warnings
> each boot.  Maybe just for the "We really should purge this crap next
> time" functions ?

What about a #warning? With a #warning everyone compiling this code sees
that there's something that needs updating but it doesn't flood the logs
of users (#warning was already used for linux/malloc.h in 2.4).

> 		Dave

cu
Adrian

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