Re: [2.6 patch] mark pci_find_device() as __deprecated

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda
Date: Sun Nov 19 2006 - 04:53:33 EST


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?

Cheers,
Muli
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