printk: Add a DEPRECATED macro

sctp has several points in its setsockopt path in which it issues deprecation
warnings.  It seems like it might be handy to macrotize such a warning so other
subsystems can use it easily

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Neil Horman 2013-12-23 08:29:42 -05:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent c76f2a2c4c
commit 0a9a8bfd29

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@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ struct va_format {
*/
#define HW_ERR "[Hardware Error]: "
/*
* DEPRECATED
* Add this to a message whenever you want to warn user space about the use
* of a deprecated aspect of an API so they can stop using it
*/
#define DEPRECATED "[Deprecated]: "
/*
* Dummy printk for disabled debugging statements to use whilst maintaining
* gcc's format and side-effect checking.