linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 38/39] PCI: remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE

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Message-ID: <1386028330.15309.13.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:52:10 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
Cc:	'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	'Bjorn Helgaas' <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 38/39] PCI: remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro

On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 08:32 +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
> Don't use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro, because this macro
> is not preferred. Also, the definition of DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE
> macro is removed.

These sorts of treewide conversions are almost never
applied wholesale.

This patch is not appropriate until there are no more
uses of DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE in Linus' tree.

Just marking the function as deprecated in the
documentation and the pci.h file is probably good
enough for now.

see:  http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/2/400


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