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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/