Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:32:07 -0700 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] kernel.h: rename pack_hex_byte to hex_pack_byte | | From | Andrew Morton <> |
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com> wrote: >> err, no thanks. That's just going to hit everyone with great >> screenfuls of compile warnings while waiting for someone else to fix >> them up. > > Okay, what about renaming pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack and > introducing temporary macro for backward compatibility?
It's better to convert all the in-kernel call sites at the same time as adding the __deprecated tag to the old function. -- 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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