On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:24:40 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recent builds get tons of warnings about memclear_highpage_flush > beeing deprecated. Turns out it's replaced by zero_user_page > which takes an additional argument. > > Now folks, deprecated is for actual functionality going away, there > is no need to mark the old name deprecated for such a trivial > paramter change and rename. Yes, it's rather trivial, but memclear_highpage_flush() *is* going away. > This stuff should go to Linus in one > patch that doesn't create utterly useless warnings and keeps around > stale interfaces. > > Here's a patch to kill memclear_highpage_flush and convert the reaming > user to make the build a littler more silent, it's more than noisy > enough due to all the useless addition of __deprecated or __must_check > to widely used functionality and gcc stupid false positives. Patches have been prepared which convert all in-kernel users. I thought I'd dtrt and feed them through maintainers, but that takes time. The laggards are on cc ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
