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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701180437430.8137@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:44:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> To: Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com> cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new categories of DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE. On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Cedric Le Goater wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > Next to EXPERIMENTAL, add two new kernel config categories of > > DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE. > > What about adding some printks when DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE are set > ? like in print_tainted() for example. i preferred to introduce this as a non-intrusive change, which didn't *require* any change to actual source code or header files. note that you can add these two new categories (and any other categories you can dream up) without changing *anything* else about the build process. and once those two categories are in the init/Kconfig file, subsystem maintainers can, on their own time, make the appropriate changes to their subsystems. it's all perfectly voluntary. also, code that's deprecated can still be tagged with "__attribute__((deprecated))" in the source code. rday - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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