Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:44:38 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Add new categories of DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Cedric Le Goater wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   Next to EXPERIMENTAL, add two new kernel config categories of
> > DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.
>
> What about adding some printks when DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE are set
> ? like in print_tainted() for example.

i preferred to introduce this as a non-intrusive change, which didn't
*require* any change to actual source code or header files.  note that
you can add these two new categories (and any other categories you
can dream up) without changing *anything* else about the build
process.  and once those two categories are in the init/Kconfig file,
subsystem maintainers can, on their own time, make the appropriate
changes to their subsystems.  it's all perfectly voluntary.

also, code that's deprecated can still be tagged with
"__attribute__((deprecated))" in the source code.

rday
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