Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings.

[Arjan van de Ven]

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

it would be nice if we could have this always-on for external modules,
so that people who're developing new modules realize from the start
that they're using API's they shouldn't, no matter what config option
they (or their distro) picked...


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