Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932152AbXARK0i (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:26:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932163AbXARK0i (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:26:38 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:37332 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932152AbXARK0h (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:26:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:25:00 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Cedric Le Goater cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux kernel mailing list , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new categories of DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE. In-Reply-To: <45AF3942.9070701@fr.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <45AF3942.9070701@fr.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 22 >> 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. Uhm no. I don't want a load of messages just because one of these options is active. I'd much rather prefer that when loading a _specific module_ depends on DEPRECATED/OBSOLETE, a message is printed. But that's an extra which I doubt it is worth modifying the kernel module structure for. -`J' -- - 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/