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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings.
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:15:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071025011516.aea17222.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41621d56a0a0e4e5f861e1725f18990df5e927ad.1193299380.git.jeff@garzik.org>

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> The __deprecated marker is quite useful in highlighting the remnants of
> old APIs that want removing.
> 
> However, it is quite normal for one or more years to pass, before the
> (usually ancient, bitrotten) code in question is either updated or
> deleted.
> 
> Thus, like __must_check, add a Kconfig option that permits the silencing
> of this compiler warning.
> 
> This change mimics the ifdef-ery and Kconfig defaults of MUST_CHECK as
> closely as possible.

Sigh.  Can't we just fix the dud code?  Or mark it BROKEN and see what
happens?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-25  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-25  8:06 [PATCH] sound/oss/sb_common.c: fix casting warning Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25  8:06 ` [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25  8:15   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-10-25  8:20     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 15:34     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-25 11:02   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-26  3:07   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-25  8:06 ` [PATCH] Remove #warnings for longstanding conditions Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25  9:52   ` Karsten Keil
2007-10-25 11:22   ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-26  2:07     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-26  2:14       ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-26  2:19         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25  8:06 ` [PATCH] ISDN/capidrv: fix casting warning Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25  9:51   ` Karsten Keil
2007-10-26  0:53     ` Jeff Garzik

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