--"Martin J. Bligh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:07:59 -0700):
> 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? Oh, I'm being an idiot and looking at the wrong tree. It's __deprecated, but I still can't think of a clean way to locally undefine that for just EXPORT_SYMBOL. M. - 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/