Hi Boris, On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 04:15:38PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:08:15 +0200 > Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I would keep the original file name, even if the compatibility definitions > > are there. I don't see any harm in having them around as well. > > > > That's the part I was not sure about. > The goal of this patch (and the following ones) is to deprecate > v4l2_mbus_pixelcode enum and its values by adding a #warning when > v4l2-mediabus.h file is included, thus encouraging people to use new > definitions. > > Do you see another solution to generate such warnings at compilation > time ? Do you think we need a warning? In a general case we can't start renaming interface headers once the preferred interface changes, albeit in this case it would be a possibility. The presence of the formats defined from now on only in the new definitions should be good enough. There are many cases such as this in the V4L2 and other APIs. I wonder what others think. -- Sakari Ailus e-mail: sakari.ailus@xxxxxx XMPP: sailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
