Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:55:16AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
> 
> --Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 20:23:12 +0200):
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays:
> >> 
> >> drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated 
> >> (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607)
> >> 
> >> Which is just: "EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_serial);"
> >> 
> >> Sorry, but that's just compile-time noise, not anything useful.
> >> Warning on real usages of it might be handy (we can go fix the users)
> >> but not EXPORT_SYMBOL - we can't kill the export until the function
> >> goes away. The more noise we have, the harder it is to see real errors 
> >> and warnings.
> >> 
> >> I took a quick poke around, but can't see what generates this stuff.
> >> What is doing these checks, and can we please make an exception for
> >> EXPORT_SYMBOL (and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) somehow?
> > 
> > This is generated by the __deprecated marker (#define'd to 
> > __attribute__((deprecated)) ) at the prototype in 
> > include/linux/serial.h.
> > 
> > You could somehow #ifdef the warning away, but IMHO this would be more 
> > ugly than living with the warning until the last user is gone.
> 
> If it's going to spout crap when I'm not even using the deprecated
> function, it's worse than useless, I'm afraid. 
>...

It's reminding us that we are still offering a deprecated function. ;-)

> M.

cu
Adrian

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