Re: [PATCH] Add new categories of DEPRECATED and OBSOLETE.

>>   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. 

Uhm no. I don't want a load of messages just because one of these 
options is active. I'd much rather prefer that when loading a _specific 
module_ depends on DEPRECATED/OBSOLETE, a message is printed. But that's 
an extra which I doubt it is worth modifying the kernel module structure 
for.



	-`J'
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