linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Shut off pci_find_device warnings when the deprecated pci functions are enabled.

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:28:01 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@...linux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shut off pci_find_device warnings when the deprecated
	pci functions are enabled.

> Maybe it's too late now, but I thought those warnings were
> supposed to motivate people to convert old, buggy drivers to get
> off the deprecated interface.

Yes they are, but this warning instance was not for a old driver,
but for the EXPORT_SYMBOL defining the legacy function.

If any driver uses it it'll still warn.

-Andi

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