diff --git a/examples/llava/llava.cpp b/examples/llava/llava.cpp
index 9a990bb18..63878d176 100644
--- a/examples/llava/llava.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/llava.cpp
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ static struct clip_image_grid_shape get_anyres_image_grid_shape(const std::pair<
 // Take the image segments in a grid configuration and return the embeddings and the number of embeddings into preallocated memory (image_embd_out)
 static bool clip_llava_handle_patches(clip_ctx * ctx_clip, std::vector<float *> & image_embd_v, struct clip_image_grid_shape grid_shape, float * image_embd_out, int * n_img_pos_out) {
     struct {
-        struct ggml_tensor * newline;
         struct ggml_context * ctx;
     } model;
 
@@ -150,20 +149,6 @@ static bool clip_llava_handle_patches(clip_ctx * ctx_clip, std::vector<float *>
 
     model.ctx = ggml_init(params);
 
-    ggml_tensor * newline_tmp = clip_get_newline_tensor(ctx_clip);
-    model.newline = ggml_new_tensor_1d(model.ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, newline_tmp->ne[0]);
-    if (newline_tmp->backend != GGML_BACKEND_TYPE_CPU) {
-        if (newline_tmp->buffer == NULL) {
-            LOG_TEE("newline_tmp tensor buffer is NULL\n");
-        }
-        ggml_backend_tensor_get(newline_tmp, model.newline->data, 0, ggml_nbytes(newline_tmp));
-    } else {
-        model.newline->data = newline_tmp->data;
-        if (model.newline->data == NULL) {
-            LOG_TEE("newline_tmp tensor data is NULL\n");
-        }
-    }
-
     struct ggml_tensor * image_features = ggml_new_tensor_3d(model.ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, clip_n_mmproj_embd(ctx_clip), clip_n_patches(ctx_clip), num_images - 1); // example: 4096 x 576 x 4
     // ggml_tensor_printf(image_features,"image_features",__LINE__,false,false);
     // fill it with the image embeddings, ignoring the base
diff --git a/ggml-backend.c b/ggml-backend.c
index dd090a583..9e35ce98d 100644
--- a/ggml-backend.c
+++ b/ggml-backend.c
@@ -1895,7 +1895,6 @@ void ggml_backend_view_init(ggml_backend_buffer_t buffer, struct ggml_tensor * t
 
     tensor->buffer = buffer;
     tensor->data = (char *)tensor->view_src->data + tensor->view_offs;
-    tensor->backend = tensor->view_src->backend;
     ggml_backend_buffer_init_tensor(buffer, tensor);
 }
 
diff --git a/ggml.c b/ggml.c
index f09cc3060..67e17a210 100644
--- a/ggml.c
+++ b/ggml.c
@@ -3178,6 +3178,12 @@ static struct ggml_tensor * ggml_new_tensor_impl(
 
     struct ggml_tensor * const result = (struct ggml_tensor *)((char *)ctx->mem_buffer + obj_new->offs);
 
+#ifdef __clang__
+    // temporary until ggml_tensor::backend is removed
+    #pragma clang diagnostic push
+    #pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"
+#endif
+
     *result = (struct ggml_tensor) {
         /*.type         =*/ type,
         /*.backend      =*/ GGML_BACKEND_TYPE_CPU,
@@ -3200,6 +3206,10 @@ static struct ggml_tensor * ggml_new_tensor_impl(
         /*.padding      =*/ { 0 },
     };
 
+#ifdef __clang__
+    #pragma clang diagnostic pop
+#endif
+
     // TODO: this should not be needed as long as we don't rely on aligned SIMD loads
     //ggml_assert_aligned(result->data);
 
diff --git a/ggml.h b/ggml.h
index 5e121604a..8c13f4ba8 100644
--- a/ggml.h
+++ b/ggml.h
@@ -565,7 +565,8 @@ extern "C" {
     // n-dimensional tensor
     struct ggml_tensor {
         enum ggml_type         type;
-        enum ggml_backend_type backend;
+
+        GGML_DEPRECATED(enum ggml_backend_type backend, "use the buffer type to find the storage location of the tensor");
 
         struct ggml_backend_buffer * buffer;