On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:13:04PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 15:04 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:47:12AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Oh, and if anything starts complaining "But this adds some warnings to
> > > > my kernel build!", he should either first fix the 200 kB (sic) of
> > > > warnings I'm getting in 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 starting at MODPOST or go to hell.
> > >
> > > we can solve this btw; we could have a
> > >
> > > #define THIS_MODULE_IS_LEGACY_CRAP_AND_WONT_GET_FIXED
> > >...
> >
> > The few warnings by __deprecated are not that much of a problem.
>
> yes they are; the current situation prevents things that are used in
> only a set of old unmaintained legacy drivers (read: ISDN) as being
ISDN at least has reachable maintainers.
There are much worse drivers in the kernel.
> marked __deprecated because they add too many warnings, while the API
> really should be marked deprecated..
>
> think for example the entire sleep_on() family of API's (which basically
> are impossible to use race-free in 2.6)
At about 100 warnings with an allyesconfig kernel build and less than a
handful of warnings with a normal .config .
That's not that bad, and it might result in even these legacy drivers
getting fixed so that the API can be completely removed.
cu
Adrian
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