Re: [PATCH v8 2/6] PCI: Deprecate pcim_iounmap_regions()

[Philipp Stanner <pstanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2024-10-16 at 13:38 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 11:49:05AM +0200, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> > pcim_ionumap_region() has recently been made a public function and
> > does
> > not have the disadvantage of having to deal with the legacy iomap
> > table,
> > as pcim_iounmap_regions() does.
> > 
> > Deprecate pcim_iounmap_regions().
> 
> ...
> 
> > + * This function is DEPRECATED. Do not use it in new code.
> 
> Interestingly that the syntax of the DEPRECATED is not documented
> (yet?),
> however the sphinx parser hints us about **DEPRECATED** format — see
> Documentation/sphinx/parse-headers.pl:251. In any case the above
> seems
> like second used (in a form of the full sentence) and will be updated
> in accordance with the above mentioned script.

Can't completely follow – so one should always write "**DEPRECATED**",
correct?

Is that a blocker for you?

All the docstrings in pci/pci.c and pci/devres.c so far just use
"DEPRECATED".


P.