On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> I'm getting lots of errors like this nowadays:
>
> drivers/serial/8250.c:2651: warning: `register_serial' is deprecated
> (declared at drivers/serial/8250.c:2607)
>
> Which is just: "EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_serial);"
>
> Sorry, but that's just compile-time noise, not anything useful.
> Warning on real usages of it might be handy (we can go fix the users)
> but not EXPORT_SYMBOL - we can't kill the export until the function
> goes away. The more noise we have, the harder it is to see real errors
> and warnings.
>
> I took a quick poke around, but can't see what generates this stuff.
> What is doing these checks, and can we please make an exception for
> EXPORT_SYMBOL (and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) somehow?
This is generated by the __deprecated marker (#define'd to
__attribute__((deprecated)) ) at the prototype in
include/linux/serial.h.
You could somehow #ifdef the warning away, but IMHO this would be more
ugly than living with the warning until the last user is gone.
> M.
cu
Adrian
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