Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386 | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:49:39 +1000 |
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On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:37:25 +1000 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@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.
Are you sure the warnings won't cause somebody like Al to go through them all and fix them ?
At least they should be marked either CONFIG_BROKEN or X86 only (or whatever arch they are supposed to be used on).
Ben.
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