Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:07:01 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings. |
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> The __deprecated marker is quite useful in highlighting the remnants > of old APIs that want removing. > > However, it is quite normal for one or more years to pass, before the > (usually ancient, bitrotten) code in question is either updated or > deleted. > > Thus, like __must_check, add a Kconfig option that permits the > silencing of this compiler warning. > > This change mimics the ifdef-ery and Kconfig defaults of MUST_CHECK as > closely as possible. >
it would be nice if we could have this always-on for external modules, so that people who're developing new modules realize from the start that they're using API's they shouldn't, no matter what config option they (or their distro) picked...
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