Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:52:58 +0200
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, gregkh@suse.de,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark pci_find_device() as __deprecated
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On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:47:12AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.

If no one is looking after them, shouldn't they just be removed?

Cheers,
Muli
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