Re: [PATCH] New include file for marking old style api files

Adrian Bunk
2005-07-28T14:03:11Z

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:42:26PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi.
> Do you think, that this would be useful in the kernel tree?
> I have an idea to mark old drivers, which should I or somebody rewrite.
> For example drivers/isdn/hisax/gazel.c.
>...
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/oldapi.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +#warning This driver uses old style API and needs to be rewritten or removed \
> + from kernel

What's wrong with __deprecated ?

cu
Adrian

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