Adding Deprecated Attribute Tags

Adding Deprecated Attribute Tags

[Joseph D. Wagner]

I formally request that the struct ext2_dir_entry and ext3_dir_entry in the 
ext2_fs.h and ext3_fs.h files be changed to add the below specified 
attributes:

struct ext2_dir_entry {
        __u32   inode;                  /* Inode number */
        __u16   rec_len;                /* Directory entry length */
        __u16   name_len;               /* Name length */
        char    name[EXT2_NAME_LEN];    /* File name */
} __attribute__ ((deprecated));

struct ext3_dir_entry {
        __u32   inode;                  /* Inode number */
        __u16   rec_len;                /* Directory entry length */
        __u16   name_len;               /* Name length */
        char    name[EXT3_NAME_LEN];    /* File name */
} __attribute__ ((deprecated));

This will aid future development and debugging to ensure that everyone uses 
the new struct ext2_dir_entry_2 and can take advantage of the additional 
fields.

Joseph D. Wagner

Re: Adding Deprecated Attribute Tags

[Robert Love]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:18, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:

> This will aid future development and debugging to ensure that everyone uses 
> the new struct ext2_dir_entry_2 and can take advantage of the additional 
> fields.

We have a special __deprecated define in include/compiler.h and family
to safely mark this (e.g., it defines away on older gcc's and Intel's
CC).

	Robert Love