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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Adverg Ebashinskii <ebashinskii@mail.ru>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE macro existed in the Kernel 5.9.16, but got removed
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 07:52:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YS8VI+G9GKnQt1aQ@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1630306754.376766765@f545.i.mail.ru>

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 09:59:14AM +0300, Adverg Ebashinskii wrote:
> 
> I recently tried to compile my driver developed for the Kernel 5.9.16 using the latest upstream version checked out from git and figured out that there is no more MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE macro.
>  
> Could you please give a hint where to look at for the information on why it was removed?

Find the commit in the git tree that removed it and look at the
changelog text for why it was removed.  I think the text there will
explain it quite well.

thanks,

greg k-h

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2021-08-30  6:59 MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE macro existed in the Kernel 5.9.16, but got removed Adverg Ebashinskii
2021-09-01  5:52 ` Greg KH [this message]

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