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

Stefan Richter stefanr at s5r6.in-berlin.de
Tue Oct 3 19:36:45 EST 2006


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Net result: lots of new warnings, no fixed bugs.
> 
> Are you sure the warnings won't cause somebody like Al to go through
> them all and fix them ?

If you mean by "fix" to actually convert to generic DMA mapping, then
this task may turn out to require in-depth knowledge of the driver and
its field of application in some or many of these cases.
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