On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:55:16AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
>
> --Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 20:23:12 +0200):
>
> > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > This is generated by the __deprecated marker (#define'd to
> > __attribute__((deprecated)) ) at the prototype in
> > include/linux/serial.h.
> >
> > You could somehow #ifdef the warning away, but IMHO this would be more
> > ugly than living with the warning until the last user is gone.
>
> If it's going to spout crap when I'm not even using the deprecated
> function, it's worse than useless, I'm afraid.
>...
It's reminding us that we are still offering a deprecated function. ;-)
> M.
cu
Adrian
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