On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > Next to EXPERIMENTAL, add two new kernel config categories of
> > DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.
>
> What about adding some printks when DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE are set
> ? like in print_tainted() for example.
i preferred to introduce this as a non-intrusive change, which didn't
*require* any change to actual source code or header files. note that
you can add these two new categories (and any other categories you
can dream up) without changing *anything* else about the build
process. and once those two categories are in the init/Kconfig file,
subsystem maintainers can, on their own time, make the appropriate
changes to their subsystems. it's all perfectly voluntary.
also, code that's deprecated can still be tagged with
"__attribute__((deprecated))" in the source code.
rday
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