Re: [PATCH -next 05/10] tty: Document defunct ASYNC_* bits in uapi header

[Jiri Slaby]

On 10/16/2014, 10:54 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Note the serial_struct flags for which the kernel ignores and performs
> no action. The flags cannot be removed since they form part of the
> userspace interface via the TIOCSSERIAL/TIOCGSERIAL ioctls.

Hello,

would it make sense to mark them deprecated somehow? At build time, or
at least warn in the serial core that "current->comm is using a
deprecated flag"_ratelimited()?

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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