Re: [PATCH 15/15] lib: devres: Remove deprecateddevm_request_and_ioremap

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jun 12 2013 - 13:39:16 EST


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 03:43:59PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Now that all the users of devm_request_and_ioremap have been converted
> > to use devm_ioremap_resource, remove the definition.
>
> This is a function which was exported to the drivers including
> third-party drivers.

That doesn't matter, we've cleaned up all in-kernel users of it, so we
can safely delete it.

> I suggest to mark it as __deprecated and wait couple of release cycles.

No, that's not going to help anyone, just delete it and move on.

thanks,

greg k-h
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