linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] PCI: Deprecate of_pci_get_host_bridge

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Date:   Thu, 3 May 2018 09:53:58 +0200
From:   Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] PCI: Deprecate
 of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources()

On 2018-05-02 14:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 07:48:42AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
>>
>> There are no in-tree users remaining, all are converted to the managed
>> variant. And it is unlikely that any out-of-tree user got the resource
>> management right as well. So deprecate the interface and push users to
>> the managed version instead.
>>
>> To avoid raising a warning when exporting a deprecated symbol, wrap the
>> API with an inline and export an internal name.
> 
> Don't deprecated it, just remove it.
> 

I see a clear favorite now: consider this patch obsolete. I'll send a
separate removal patch, or a v3 of this series when otherwise needed.

Jan

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