Re: [PATCH] New include file for marking old style api files

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 08:53:45 EST


Jiri Slaby napsal(a):

Hi.
Do you think, that this would be useful in the kernel tree?
I have an idea to mark old drivers, which should I or somebody rewrite.
For example drivers/isdn/hisax/gazel.c.

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diff --git a/include/linux/oldapi.h b/include/linux/oldapi.h
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/oldapi.h
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#warning This driver uses old style API and needs to be rewritten or removed \
+ from kernel


Maybe this would be better (license and comments added).

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diff --git a/include/linux/oldapi.h b/include/linux/oldapi.h
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/oldapi.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/**
+ * Include this file, if you think that the driver is old API styled
+ *
+ * Version: 1.0 28 Jul 2005 Initial version
+ *
+ * Author Jiri Slaby <xslaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
+ *
+ * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
+ * of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
+ */
+
+#warning This driver uses old style API and needs to be rewritten or removed \
+ from kernel