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@@ -342,24 +342,6 @@ API usage
See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/RCU/whatisRCU.html#full-list-of-rcu-apis
- **DEPRECATED_VARIABLE**
- EXTRA_{A,C,CPP,LD}FLAGS are deprecated and should be replaced by the new
- flags added via commit f77bf01425b1 ("kbuild: introduce ccflags-y,
- asflags-y and ldflags-y").
-
- The following conversion scheme maybe used::
-
- EXTRA_AFLAGS -> asflags-y
- EXTRA_CFLAGS -> ccflags-y
- EXTRA_CPPFLAGS -> cppflags-y
- EXTRA_LDFLAGS -> ldflags-y
-
- See:
-
- 1. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20070930191054.GA15876@uranus.ravnborg.org/
- 2. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1313384834-24433-12-git-send-email-lacombar@gmail.com/
- 3. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/makefiles.html#compilation-flags
-
**DEVICE_ATTR_FUNCTIONS**
The function names used in DEVICE_ATTR is unusual.
Typically, the store and show functions are used with <attr>_store and