netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: deprecate print

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Message-Id: <20090715.113156.120453022.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:31:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: deprecate print_mac

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:23:23 +0200

> We've had %pM for long enough now, time to deprecate
> print_mac() and remove the __maybe_unused attribute
> from DECLARE_MAC_BUF so that variables declared with
> that can be found and removed. Otherwise people are
> putting in new users of print_mac().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> ---
> On my tree, with three other patches I have submitted
> to gianfar, fcoe and wireless, there's now no user of
> DECLARE_MAC_BUF() left. I'm open to just killing it
> right away, but that seems like a pain to coordinate
> and would likely get merge conflicts, so this is much
> simpler and then killing it next cycle.

I think I'm going to apply this after John's next
wireless merge to me for net-next-2.6
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