linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of _

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20071025011516.aea17222.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:15:16 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings.

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote:

> The __deprecated marker is quite useful in highlighting the remnants of
> old APIs that want removing.
> 
> However, it is quite normal for one or more years to pass, before the
> (usually ancient, bitrotten) code in question is either updated or
> deleted.
> 
> Thus, like __must_check, add a Kconfig option that permits the silencing
> of this compiler warning.
> 
> This change mimics the ifdef-ery and Kconfig defaults of MUST_CHECK as
> closely as possible.

Sigh.  Can't we just fix the dud code?  Or mark it BROKEN and see what
happens?
-
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/