Commit 0a9a8bfd authored Dec 23, 2013 by Neil Horman Committed by David S. Miller Dec 31, 2013

printk: Add a DEPRECATED macro



sctp has several points in its setsockopt path in which it issues deprecation
warnings.  It seems like it might be handy to macrotize such a warning so other
subsystems can use it easily

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent c76f2a2c

include/linux/printk.h

+7 −0

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		@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ struct va_format {
		*/
		#define HW_ERR "[Hardware Error]: "

		/*
		* DEPRECATED
		* Add this to a message whenever you want to warn user space about the use
		* of a deprecated aspect of an API so they can stop using it
		*/
		#define DEPRECATED "[Deprecated]: "

		/*
		* Dummy printk for disabled debugging statements to use whilst maintaining
		* gcc's format and side-effect checking.

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