linux-kernel - Re: powerpc allmodconfig

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Message-ID: <s5hiqrtq8fc.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:57:11 +0200
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	marek.vasut@...il.com, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@...cle.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: powerpc allmodconfig

At Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:38:36 +0300,
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 07:57:29AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:33:37 -0700,
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > sound/soc/soc-dapm.c:1029: warning: 'snd_soc_dapm_connect_input' is deprecated (declared at sound/soc/soc-dapm.c:1026)
> > > sound/soc/soc-dapm.c:1029: warning: 'snd_soc_dapm_connect_input' is deprecated (declared at sound/soc/soc-dapm.c:1026)
> > 
> > These are definitions of deprecated interfaces.
> > We can remove it in 2.6.29.  If we don't want to be conservative, it
> > can be removed in 2.6.28, too.
> >...
> 
> Since it's an in-kernel API there's no reason to keep it once there are 
> no users left.

Right.  But, IMO, now is no suitable time.
A thing like API removal should have been tested in linux-next, and we
had plenty of time indeed for 2.6.28.

> But currently sound/soc/at32/playpaq_wm8510.c still seems to use it.

Yep, but don't be bothered to try to create a patch for that.
There will be a unification patch for both at32 and at91, so clean-ups
will be applied anyway later.


thanks,

Takashi
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