From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dead & Dying interfaces
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:55:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021118175535.GD15318@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021115184725.H20070@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:47:25PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> This list is a combination of interfaces which have gone during 2.5 and
> interfaces that should go during 2.7. Think of it as a `updating your
> driver/filesystem to sane code' guide.
Adding printk (KERN_DEBUG "Usage of check_region() is deprecated");
to such interfaces may be an idea. For some of them, however it
is probably a bad idea if the logs get flooded with zillions of warnings
each boot. Maybe just for the "We really should purge this crap next
time" functions ?
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-18 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-15 18:47 Dead & Dying interfaces Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-15 19:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-16 2:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-17 0:41 ` Greg KH
2002-11-17 1:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-18 17:55 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-11-19 19:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-12-05 4:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
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