any place to mark various compatible strings as deprecated?

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Apr 9 01:21:54 EST 2009


On Apr 8, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:23:22AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> Do we have anywhere to list out compatible strings that are  
>> deprecated
>> and warn if the kernel sees one?
>
> Wouldn't dtc be a better location for that? The kernel has to be  
> backwards
> compatible anyway, I don't really see a reason to warn there.

The reason is I want to eventually drop support in the kernel for some  
of the old compatibles.

- k



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