Re: [PATCH] Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings.

[Andrew Morton]

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

> 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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