Re: powerpc allmodconfig

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Thu Oct 16 2008 - 03:58:08 EST


At Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:38:36 +0300,
Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 07:57:29AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:33:37 -0700,
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > sound/soc/soc-dapm.c:1029: warning: 'snd_soc_dapm_connect_input' is deprecated (declared at sound/soc/soc-dapm.c:1026)
> > > sound/soc/soc-dapm.c:1029: warning: 'snd_soc_dapm_connect_input' is deprecated (declared at sound/soc/soc-dapm.c:1026)
> >
> > These are definitions of deprecated interfaces.
> > We can remove it in 2.6.29. If we don't want to be conservative, it
> > can be removed in 2.6.28, too.
> >...
>
> Since it's an in-kernel API there's no reason to keep it once there are
> no users left.

Right. But, IMO, now is no suitable time.
A thing like API removal should have been tested in linux-next, and we
had plenty of time indeed for 2.6.28.

> But currently sound/soc/at32/playpaq_wm8510.c still seems to use it.

Yep, but don't be bothered to try to create a patch for that.
There will be a unification patch for both at32 and at91, so clean-ups
will be applied anyway later.


thanks,

Takashi
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