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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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	API	replacement/deprecation
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On Fri, 07 Sep 2018 01:24:03 +0200,
Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 4:18 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hopefully we can all agree on deprecating strcpy() and strncpy() in
> favor of strscpy()?

How about providing some lightweight check script for git commit hook,
and let each maintainer install it? 


thanks,

Takashi