Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings.

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From: Andrew Morton

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings.

Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 1:15 am

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

quoted text> The __deprecated marker is quite useful in highlighting the remnants of
> old APIs that want removing.
> 
> However, it is quite normal for one or more years to pass, before the
> (usually ancient, bitrotten) code in question is either updated or
> deleted.
> 
> Thus, like __must_check, add a Kconfig option that permits the silencing
> of this compiler warning.
> 
> This change mimics the ifdef-ery and Kconfig defaults of MUST_CHECK as
> closely as possible.

Sigh.  Can't we just fix the dud code?  Or mark it BROKEN and see what
happens?
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[PATCH] sound/oss/sb_common.c: fix casting warning, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 25, 1:06 am)

[PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings., Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 25, 1:06 am)

[PATCH] Remove #warnings for longstanding conditions., Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 25, 1:06 am)

[PATCH] ISDN/capidrv: fix casting warning, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 25, 1:06 am)

Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings., Andrew Morton, (Thu Oct 25, 1:15 am)

Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings., Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 25, 1:20 am)

Re: [PATCH] ISDN/capidrv: fix casting warning, Karsten Keil, (Thu Oct 25, 2:51 am)

Re: [PATCH] Remove #warnings for longstanding conditions., Karsten Keil, (Thu Oct 25, 2:52 am)

Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings., Sam Ravnborg, (Thu Oct 25, 4:02 am)

Re: [PATCH] Remove #warnings for longstanding conditions., Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Oct 25, 4:22 am)

Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Oct 25, 8:34 am)

Re: [PATCH] ISDN/capidrv: fix casting warning, Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 25, 5:53 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Remove #warnings for longstanding conditions., Jeff Garzik, (Thu Oct 25, 7:07 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Remove #warnings for longstanding conditions., Matthew Wilcox, (Thu Oct 25, 7:14 pm)

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