linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Doc: MODULE_SUPPORTED

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:33:55 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Doc: MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE is not implemented

On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:10:25 +0200
Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:

> The MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE macro is documented as
>     Not Yet Implemented
> 
> for over a decade now. It will clearly never be implemented. Remove a
> reference to it from a DocBook template.

The thing is, there's nearly 200 invocations of this macro in the tree.
Taking out the documentation reference just makes those even more
mysterious than they already are.  I'd favor, instead, either (1) making
the document state explicitly that this macro does nothing, or (2) a
tree-wide patch simply removing it entirely.

jon
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