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Message-ID: <n72qp2s8-00q1-3n32-n600-p59o2oqo7s43@vanv.qr>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 23:38:54 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <ej@...i.de>
To: Szőke Benjamin <egyszeregy@...email.hu>
cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>, fw@...len.de, pablo@...filter.org, 
    lorenzo@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, leitao@...ian.org, 
    amiculas@...co.com, davem@...emloft.net, dsahern@...nel.org, 
    edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, horms@...nel.org, 
    netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org, 
    linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] netfilter: Add message pragma for deprecated
 xt_*.h, ipt_*.h.


On Tuesday 2025-01-07 23:06, Szőke Benjamin wrote:
>> 
>> I still don't know whether adding the pragmas to notify about header file
>> deprecation is a good idea.
>
> Do you have any other ideas how can you display this information to the
> users/customers, that it is time to stop using the uppercase header files then
> they shall to use its merged lowercase named files instead in their userspace
> SW?

``__attribute__`` is just as implementation-specific as ``#pragma``, so it's
not really an improvement, but here goes:

----
struct __attribute__((deprecated("This header file is deprecated"))) dontusethisstruct {
};
extern struct dontusethisstruct undefinedstruct;
----

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