Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:33:31 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate pci_module_init
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:10:39AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> A separate pci_module_init doesn't really exist anymore so we should
> deprecate this.  Whilst we are at it we should insist any (old) users
> of this and also users of pci_register_driver check their return
> codes.  Whilst doing this we may as well remove some old (unused)
> preprocessor tokens whilst we are at it.

There's nothing bad about it, it's a useless indirection but doesn't
cause harm.

If you want it to be removed submit patches to the drivers using it
instead of adding such warnings.  Once your down to very few drivers
you can deprecate it.
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