Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark pci_find_device() as __deprecated
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, gregkh@suse.de,
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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:47:12 +0100
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> 
> Oh, and if anything starts complaining "But this adds some warnings to 
> my kernel build!", he should either first fix the 200 kB (sic) of 
> warnings I'm getting in 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 starting at MODPOST or go to hell.

we can solve this btw; we could have a

#define THIS_MODULE_IS_LEGACY_CRAP_AND_WONT_GET_FIXED

that would turn __deprecated into a nop for those few legacy modules
inside the kernel that nobody really is looking after.

(and yes the define should be really offensive so that nobody will put
it in a maintained module, and maybe it should even cause the kernel to
printk something when such a module gets loaded into the kernel)

If this sounds like a good idea I'll code it up...


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