Re: [avr-libc-dev] [RFC][PATCH] Deprecate inb / outb.

[Joerg Wunsch]

As E. Weddington wrote:

> I don't know if I totally agree with <compat/io.h> 
> containing deprecated macros. Isn't the whole point of 
> deprecating macros is that they will eventually be removed? 
> (At least that's what we say in the docs.) If that's the 
> case, I would argue to keep them where they are. That way a 
> user doesn't have to change *any* include lines. And then, 
> at some point in the future remove them, as stated.

...which will cause an outcry of the users. ;-)

> My fear is that if the macros get put into a seperate 
> header, then we'll never get rid of them.

My fear is, if we leave them as they are, people will never
even think about stopping to use them.  You might know best,
Eric, people just /don't/ read documentation, ever. :)  So
just documenting they are deprecated will not cause anyone
to think about no longer using them...

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J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
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