Hi Kees,

On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 11:24:11 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> If there was an agreement by all maintainers that deprecated
> functions/patterns should not be added, and we documented the
> deprecation somewhere like Documentation/process/deprecated.rst, then
> we could make the declaration that if such functions got added (it's
> easy to mechanically check for them), it would be the responsibility
> of the author and maintainer chain to see that it got fixed before the
> release is cut. We already have this for things like "breaks the x86
> allmodconfig build" or similar. The checking would be manual, and the
> enforcement would be by agreement, but it'd be better than the kind of
> "please don't do this" hand-waving we've had in the past.

I could do this in linux-next, of course, the same way I check for
missing signed-off-bys.  All I would need is the list of deprecated
things.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell