[PATCH] slab: deprecate kmem_cache_t

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index fbcfc208f52b..2271886744f8 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -7,16 +7,17 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_SLAB_H
 #define _LINUX_SLAB_H
 
-#if     defined(__KERNEL__)
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-/* kmem_cache_t exists for legacy reasons and is not used by code in mm */
-typedef struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_t;
+#include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <asm/page.h>           /* kmalloc_sizes.h needs PAGE_SIZE */
+#include <asm/cache.h>          /* kmalloc_sizes.h needs L1_CACHE_BYTES */
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
 
-#include        <linux/gfp.h>
-#include        <linux/init.h>
-#include        <linux/types.h>
-#include        <asm/page.h>            /* kmalloc_sizes.h needs PAGE_SIZE */
-#include        <asm/cache.h>           /* kmalloc_sizes.h needs L1_CACHE_BYTES */
+/* kmem_cache_t exists for legacy reasons and is not used by code in mm */
+typedef struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_t __deprecated;
 
 /* flags to pass to kmem_cache_create().
  * The first 3 are only valid when the allocator as been build