Hi Len, On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:45:53 -0400 (EDT), Len Brown wrote: > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:312: warning: ‘client_unregister’ is deprecated > (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:357) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:313: warning: ‘client_unregister’ is deprecated > (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:357) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:653: warning: ‘detach_client’ is deprecated > (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:154) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:719: warning: ‘detach_client’ is deprecated > (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:154) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:788: warning: ‘detach_client’ is deprecated > (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:154) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:869: warning: ‘client_register’ is deprecated > (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:356) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:870: warning: ‘client_register’ is deprecated > (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:356) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:884: warning: ‘i2c_attach_client’ is deprecated > (declared at drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:835) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:884: warning: ‘i2c_attach_client’ is deprecated > (declared at drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:835) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:891: warning: ‘client_unregister’ is deprecated > (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:357) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:892: warning: ‘client_unregister’ is deprecated > (declared at include/linux/i2c.h:357) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:912: warning: ‘i2c_detach_client’ is deprecated > (declared at drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:887) > drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:912: warning: ‘i2c_detach_client’ is deprecated > (declared at drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:887) I am aware of these. The problem is that these functions are exported and are both used externally (which is deprecated, thus the warnings) and internally (which is OK, but I don't know how to disable the deprecation warnings locally.) When the last few remaining legacy drivers have been converted, we can stop exporting these functions, and the warnings will go away. Unfortunately it will not happen in 2.6.30 because the remaining drivers were converted a little late in the 2.6.30 release cycle [1]. I'm sorry about this, I did my best but I can't forcibly push patches to maintainers if they don't want them. [1] http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-April/071008.html If you know of a simple way to silent the deprecation warnings in i2c-core meanwhile, I'm all ears. I can think of one method (converting all these functions to wrappers to internal versions) but this seems a lot of work for something that will go away in 2.6.31 anyway. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
