Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756537AbWKSKB0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:01:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756538AbWKSKB0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:01:26 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:25540 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756537AbWKSKBZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:01:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark pci_find_device() as __deprecated From: Arjan van de Ven To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cc: Adrian Bunk , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz In-Reply-To: <20061119095258.GK3735@rhun.zurich.ibm.com> References: <20061114014125.dd315fff.akpm@osdl.org> <20061117142145.GX31879@stusta.de> <20061117143236.GA23210@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20061118000629.GW31879@stusta.de> <1163929632.31358.481.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20061119095258.GK3735@rhun.zurich.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:01:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1163930476.31358.483.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 (2.8.1.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1216 Lines: 31 On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 11:52 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > 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? that's a whole different flamewar, esp if they sort of kinda mostly work if the moon is aligned properly with Mars. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/