Stringified annotations (#367)

Restricts annotations to be string-based (and thus less typesafe)
Makes annotations more easily serializable and interact with Chisel

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/scala/firrtl/transforms/Dedup.scala b/src/main/scala/firrtl/transforms/Dedup.scala
index a9d3b4c9..0d9be831 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/firrtl/transforms/Dedup.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/firrtl/transforms/Dedup.scala
@@ -5,18 +5,12 @@ package transforms
 
 import firrtl.ir._
 import firrtl.Mappers._
-import firrtl.Annotations._
+import firrtl.annotations._
 import firrtl.passes.PassException
 
 // Datastructures
 import scala.collection.mutable
 
-// Tags an annotation to be consumed by this pass
-case class DedupAnnotation(target: Named) extends Annotation with Loose with Unstable {
-  def duplicate(n: Named) = this.copy(target=n)
-  def transform = classOf[DedupModules]
-}
-
 // Only use on legal Firrtl. Specifically, the restriction of
 //  instance loops must have been checked, or else this pass can
 //  infinitely recurse