Re: pm_register should die

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> 
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_OLD_PM
> > > >   	if (pm_send_all(PM_SUSPEND, (void *)3)) {
> > > 
> > > Can we not do this without ifdefs?
> > > 
> > > #define pm_send_all(foo, bar) 0
> > 
> > Okay, we probably can, but the ifdefs make very nice/easy markers
> > "this is going away". I'd prefer to actually delete all the code
> > inside those ifdefs...
> > 
> > I agree this patch can be improved... I hope I can get people to fix
> > those 13 occurences and be able to just drop everything in #ifdef
> > _OLD_PM.
> 
> There's another reason: they are ifdef-ed out so that you don't see
> "obsolete function called" warning. Breaking the function and hiding
> the warning at same time would seem like a wrong thing to do. If
> someone does pm_send_all in his code, we want him to see the warning.
> 

Fair enough.

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