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

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:49:39 +1000

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:37:25 +1000
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]> 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.