Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761390AbXJYPek (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:34:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752706AbXJYPed (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:34:33 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:36609 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752661AbXJYPec (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:34:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:34:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: Jeff Garzik , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings. In-Reply-To: <20071025011516.aea17222.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <41621d56a0a0e4e5f861e1725f18990df5e927ad.1193299380.git.jeff@garzik.org> <20071025011516.aea17222.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 505 Lines: 17 On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Sigh. Can't we just fix the dud code? Or mark it BROKEN and see what > happens? I think removing __deprecated is the better option. Quite frankly, some people add "__deprecated" *way* too eagerly. Linus - 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/