linux-kernel - Re: please use pci_alloc_irq_vectors in thunderx

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Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:30:22 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sergey Temerkhanov <s.temerkhanov@...il.com>,
        linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: please use pci_alloc_irq_vectors in thunderx_edac.

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:28:59PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:16:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Did we ever do this for deprecated APIs before?  For now I'm just watching
> > Linux-next and sending gentle reminders :)
> 
> $ git grep __deprecated
> 
> shows some have been done. I wonder whether marking
> pci_enable_msix_exact() would cause a lot of warnings though. An
> allyesconfig build would tell...

It would cause lots of warnings.  The problem with __deprecated is that
it causes warnings for existing users, not just new ones.