Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:42:21 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reduce __deprecated spew
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Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
>
>  This patch changes a couple of the noisier deprecations to only warn
>  on the primary entrypoint (in these cases, the _register functions).
>  This approach makes it obvious that an interface is going away while
>  only warning once per user. I suggest we adopt this approach for
>  future deprecation campaigns.

But that's going to warn when the deprecated function itself is compiled,
isn't it?

If so, that's backwards.  We want to warn when the deprecated function is
_used_, so people go fix up their code, and we can then remove the
deprecated function.

(The intermodule_register and pm_register stuff has been hanging around for
so long that one wonders if we need sterner stimuli, not lesser).
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