Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Neil Horman <> | Subject | [PATCH v4 1/2] printk: Add a DEPRECATED macro | Date | Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:29:42 -0500 |
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sctp has several points in its setsockopt path in which it issues deprecation warnings. It seems like it might be handy to macrotize such a warning so other subsystems can use it easily
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
--- Change Notes:
v3) * Convert to using a string prefix rather than a specific pr_ macro --- include/linux/printk.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h index 6949258..26fb95c 100644 --- a/include/linux/printk.h +++ b/include/linux/printk.h @@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ struct va_format { #define HW_ERR "[Hardware Error]: " /* + * DEPRECATED + * Add this to a message whenever you want to warn user space about the use + * of a deprecated aspect of an API so they can stop using it + */ +#define DEPRECATED "[Deprecated]: " + +/* * Dummy printk for disabled debugging statements to use whilst maintaining * gcc's format and side-effect checking. */ -- 1.8.3.1
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