On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 01:03:20 +0200 Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 25/04/2018 00:52, Stephen Hemminger: > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 01:16:53 +0300 > > Arnon Warshavsky <ar...@qwilt.com> wrote: > > > > > This patch adds a new function that is called > > > per every checked patch, > > > and alerts for new instances of rte_panic/rte_exit. > > > The check excludes comments, and alerts in the case > > > of a positive balance between additions and removals. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Arnon Warshavsky <ar...@qwilt.com> > > > > Why not just mark the functions as deprecated with compiler attribute. > > No, the applications can use these functions. Yeah, fighting against that would be hard. They always seemed like internal functions.