Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:15:16 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings. |
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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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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