Re: [PATCH] more deprectation bits

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:38:51 -0800


Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Rename the deprecated attribute to __deprecated to make it obvious
> this is something special and to avoid namespace clashes.
>
> Mark more functionality deprecated:
>
> - sleep_on & friends

Please do not make sleep_on() generate a warning. Unless you intend
to do the same to lock_kernel().

ext3 uses sleep_on(). It is perfectly safe. Weaning ext3 off lock_kernel()
is a large, delicate and thus-far undesigned body of work. I've been
working on other stuff and it is quite unlikely that ext3 locking will
be redesigned in the 2.5 timeframe.

> - old module interfaces
>
> This gives quite a lot warnings, I'll start to fix the ones in
> core code and stuff I maintain now..

Sounds like pointless churn to me. How about we fix some real stuff and get
this kernel out the door before we all die?
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