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    Deprecate SA_xxx interrupt flags -V2 · 0e8638e2
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    The deprecation of the SA_xxx interrupt flags did not emit deprecated
    warnings. Andrew said about the removal of the deprecated flag defines:
    
    > This is going to break a lot of external stuff.  We should have found
    > a way to make usage of SA_* emit deprecated warnings (or _some_
    > warning) to warn people of impending doom.  But I can't immediately
    > find a way of doing that. if we _can_ find a way of doing this, I
    > suspect we'll need to do it, and give people another six months.  It's
    > going to get ugly out there.  We shall see...
    
    Define the deprecated flags as a call to a __deprecated inline function
    so a warning is emitted on compile time.
    
    Extend the reprieve of out of tree drivers to 9/2007.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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