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

Jiri Slaby
2005-07-28T14:12:31Z

Adrian Bunk napsal(a):

>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 ?
>
>
Nothing, but this marks entire driver, not a function, that it uses.
I.e. gazel doesn't emit any warning or so, I think; so for these cases.

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