As of commit 85656ec193e9, the IDR interface is marked as deprecated in the documentation, but no checks are made in that regard for new code. Add the existing IDR initialization APIs to the deprecated list in checkpatch, so that if new code is introduced using these APIs, a warning is emitted.
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| @@ -860,6 +860,10 @@ our %deprecated_apis = ( · 859 unmodified lines | ||
| 860 | 860 | "kunmap" => "kunmap_local", |
| 861 | 861 | "kmap_atomic" => "kmap_local_page", |
| 862 | 862 | "kunmap_atomic" => "kunmap_local", |
| 863 | + #These should be enough to drive away new IDR users | |
| 864 | + "DEFINE_IDR" => "DEFINE_XARRAY", | |
| 865 | + "idr_init" => "xa_init", | |
| 866 | + "idr_init_base" => "xa_init_flags" | |
| 863 | 867 | ); |
| 864 | 868 | |
| 865 | 869 | #Create a search pattern for all these strings to speed up a loop below |