Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>]

--"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:07:59 -0700):

> I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays:
> 
> drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated 
> (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607)
> 
> Which is just: "EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_serial);"
> 
> Sorry, but that's just compile-time noise, not anything useful.
> Warning on real usages of it might be handy (we can go fix the users)
> but not EXPORT_SYMBOL - we can't kill the export until the function
> goes away. The more noise we have, the harder it is to see real errors 
> and warnings.
> 
> I took a quick poke around, but can't see what generates this stuff.
> What is doing these checks, and can we please make an exception for
> EXPORT_SYMBOL (and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) somehow?

Oh, I'm being an idiot and looking at the wrong tree. It's __deprecated,
but I still can't think of a clean way to locally undefine that for
just EXPORT_SYMBOL.

M.

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