From: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>,
Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] PCI: mark pci_scan_bus_parented() as __deprecated
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:14:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C3386F.5050009@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130620170855.GA21465@kroah.com>
On 06/21/2013 01:08 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 01:01:05AM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
>>
>> Mark pci_scan_bus_parented() as __deprecated and clean up outdated
>> comments.
>
> Why not just delete the function, if no in-kernel users are calling it,
> it's no longer needed at all.
Hi Greg,
I thought that may break out of tree drivers, so give a warning first
for smooth transitions. Any guidelines here? I have some other similar
cases to keep some exported symbols just for out of tree drivers.
Regards!
Gerry
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-20 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-20 17:01 [PATCH 0/3] deprecate usage of pci_scan_bus_parented() Jiang Liu
2013-06-20 17:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] PCI: export three functions to support modular host bridge driver Jiang Liu
2013-06-20 17:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] PCI, xen-pcifront: use new PCI interfaces to simplify implementation Jiang Liu
2013-06-20 17:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] PCI: mark pci_scan_bus_parented() as __deprecated Jiang Liu
2013-06-20 17:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-20 17:14 ` Jiang Liu [this message]
2013-06-20 17:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-21 18:23 ` [PATCH 0/3] deprecate usage of pci_scan_bus_parented() Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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