Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Aug 2005 20:23:12 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise |
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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.
> M.
cu Adrian
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