From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: ksummit <ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] API replacement/deprecation
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:43:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9d9y4e4.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1809071203570.3036@hadrien>
On Fri, 07 Sep 2018, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2018, Jani Nikula wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2018, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
>> > I came up with the following Coccinelle semantic patch. The advantage is
>> > that it can also give a hint as to what should be done. The intent is
>> > that it should be easily extensible.
>>
>> The only real downside that I can see is that it centralizes the
>> deprecation information in the semantic patch instead of the functions
>> themselves.
>
> It's possible to put comments in the code near the definition. There are
> a number of occurrences of deprecated already. People who are just
> copying code from something else may not actually look at the definition
> of all of the functions they are copying, so there should be some benefit
> to having the information somehow attached to uses.
Hmm, generate the semantic patch based on the __deprecated attributes?
BR,
Jani.
--
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-05 22:57 Kees Cook
2018-09-05 23:41 ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-06 2:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-06 6:12 ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-06 18:24 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-06 23:18 ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-09-06 23:24 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-07 7:03 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-07 7:20 ` Johannes Berg
2018-09-07 7:31 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-07 9:42 ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-07 8:04 ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-07 9:38 ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-07 9:54 ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-07 10:05 ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-07 10:43 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2018-09-07 10:25 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-09-07 11:44 ` Mark Brown
2018-09-10 12:51 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-11 8:10 ` Jani Nikula
2018-09-11 9:34 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-11 11:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-07 8:19 ` Jan Kara
2018-09-07 14:33 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-07 16:10 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-07 20:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-07 20:56 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-08 8:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-08 15:19 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-10 12:28 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2018-09-10 16:09 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-07 10:14 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-09-07 10:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-07 8:40 ` Maxime Ripard
2018-09-06 4:44 ` Julia Lawall
2018-09-06 10:04 ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-06 10:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-06 14:59 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-06 15:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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