On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 05:36:02PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Saturday 24 December 2022 17:18:51 Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > So you don't have to get all worked up about it - if it is really used, > > I'm sure the maintainers involved will do the right decision. The point > > is, finding out whether something still has users and with the latest > > kernel is not always trivial. > > I agree that finding out such information is hard. But do not take me > wrong, but if people are lazy and do not look into in-tree kernel > documentation and check it, then I'm loosing motivation to keep in-tree > kernel documentation up-to-date... As a matter of procedure, could patches deprecating modules perhaps add a loud kernel warning message somewhere in the module's execution path as a means to mitigate any surprises for people using it?
