[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] API replacement/deprecation
Jani Nikula
jani.nikula at intel.com
Fri Sep 7 10:43:15 UTC 2018
On Fri, 07 Sep 2018, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall at lip6.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2018, Jani Nikula wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2018, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall at 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.
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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
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