[2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386

Andrew Morton akpm at osdl.org
Tue Oct 3 14:44:00 EST 2006


On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:37:25 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> > > You might want to convince Andrew accepting my patch to make 
> > > virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt give compile warnings on i386 for making
> > > people more aware of this problem...
> > >...
> 
> Andrew, is there any reason not to take that patch ?

It generates lots of warnings from drivers which nobody does any work on.

Net result: lots of new warnings, no fixed bugs.



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