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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 11:52 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> 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?


that's a whole different flamewar, esp if they sort of kinda mostly work
if the moon is aligned properly with Mars.


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