[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index fbcfc20..2271886 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__
+
+#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>
/* 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 */
+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