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[113/156] lib/idr.c: document that ida_simple_{get,remove}() are deprecated

Message ID 20201016024813.YS2j9xrno%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series [001/156] device-dax/kmem: fix resource release | expand

Commit Message

Andrew Morton Oct. 16, 2020, 2:48 a.m. UTC 
From: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Subject: lib/idr.c: document that ida_simple_{get,remove}() are deprecated

These two functions are deprecated.  Users should call ida_alloc() or
ida_free() respectively instead.  Add documentation to this effect until
the macro can be removed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200910055246.2297797-2-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tri Vo <trong@android.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 include/linux/idr.h |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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--- a/include/linux/idr.h~idr-document-that-ida_simple_getremove-are-deprecated
+++ a/include/linux/idr.h
@@ -314,6 +314,10 @@  static inline void ida_init(struct ida *
 	xa_init_flags(&ida->xa, IDA_INIT_FLAGS);
 }
 
+/*
+ * ida_simple_get() and ida_simple_remove() are deprecated. Use
+ * ida_alloc() and ida_free() instead respectively.
+ */
 #define ida_simple_get(ida, start, end, gfp)	\
 			ida_alloc_range(ida, start, (end) - 1, gfp)
 #define ida_simple_remove(ida, id)	ida_free(ida, id)