On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:31:14 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There _are_ things we can do though. Detect a write to the old file and
> > emit a WARN_ON_ONCE("you suck"). Wait a year, turn it into
> > WARN_ON("you really suck"). Wait a year, then remove it.
> >
>
> Ok, I'll use WARN_ON_ONCE() to let the user know of the deprecation and
> then add an entry to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
A printk_once() would be better - WARN() generates a big stack
spew which often is wholly irrelevant.
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