On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 05:47:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > No, because the whole idea of "let me mark something deprecated and > then not just remove it" is GARBAGE. > > If somebody wants to deprecate something, it is up to *them* to finish > the job. Not annoy thousands of other developers with idiotic > warnings. What would be nice is something that warned about _new_ uses being added. ie checkpatch. Let's at least not make the problem worse.