Re: Dead & Dying interfaces

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 12:55:35 EST


On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:47:25PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> This list is a combination of interfaces which have gone during 2.5 and
> interfaces that should go during 2.7. Think of it as a `updating your
> driver/filesystem to sane code' guide.

Adding printk (KERN_DEBUG "Usage of check_region() is deprecated");
to such interfaces may be an idea. For some of them, however it
is probably a bad idea if the logs get flooded with zillions of warnings
each boot. Maybe just for the "We really should purge this crap next
time" functions ?

                Dave

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