Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise | Date | Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:28:31 +0300 |
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On Sunday 07 August 2005 22:15, Russell King wrote: > 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 don't know why I bother with __deprecated - I haven't seen much > evidence of the users of these functions being cleaned up, so I > think we might as well just delete the functions and _force_ people > to fix their code. That unfortunately seems to be the only way to > get things done in this day and age, which is rather sad if that's > what it takes to kick people into action.
Was it ever different? -- vda
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