[RFC,PATCH 1/4] Add deprecated_for_modules

[Paul E. McKenney]

Add a deprecated_for_modules macro that allows symbols to be
deprecated only when used by modules, as suggested by Andrew
Morton some months back.

Signed-off-by: <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

diff -urpN -X dontdiff linux-2.6.12-rc1/include/linux/module.h linux-2.6.12-rc1-bettersk/include/linux/module.h
--- linux-2.6.12-rc1/include/linux/module.h	Thu Mar 31 09:53:20 2005
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-bettersk/include/linux/module.h	Sat Apr  2 11:47:43 2005
@@ -195,6 +195,12 @@ void *__symbol_get_gpl(const char *symbo
 #define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)					\
 	__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl")
 
+#ifdef MODULE
+#define deprecated_for_modules __deprecated
+#else
+#define deprecated_for_modules
+#endif
+
 #endif
 
 struct module_ref
-
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