From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 05/10] tty: Document defunct ASYNC_* bits in uapi header Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:46:57 +0200 Message-ID: <5440D781.1080308@suse.cz> References: <1413492867-20679-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <1413492867-20679-6-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com ([209.85.212.173]:41546 "EHLO mail-wi0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753360AbaJQIrH (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:47:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1413492867-20679-6-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Hurley , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, One Thousand Gnomes On 10/16/2014, 10:54 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > Note the serial_struct flags for which the kernel ignores and performs > no action. The flags cannot be removed since they form part of the > userspace interface via the TIOCSSERIAL/TIOCGSERIAL ioctls. Hello, would it make sense to mark them deprecated somehow? At build time, or at least warn in the serial core that "current->comm is using a deprecated flag"_ratelimited()? thanks, -- js suse labs