[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>

include/linux/slab.h

@@ -7,16 +7,17 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_SLAB_H
 #define	_LINUX_SLAB_H
 
-#if	defined(__KERNEL__)
-
-/* kmem_cache_t exists for legacy reasons and is not used by code in mm */
-typedef struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_t;
+#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 __deprecated;
 
 /* flags to pass to kmem_cache_create().
  * The first 3 are only valid when the allocator as been build