Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove DMA_nBIT_MASK macro

From: Yang Hongyang <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 16:59:04 +0800

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 05/07/2009 10:29 AM, Yang Hongyang wrote:
>> Shall we use something like below to warn people?
>> #define DMA_64BIT_MASK	DMA_BIT_MASK(64);(__deprecated warnings:use DMA_BIT_MASK(64) instead) ?
> 
> Something like an irq flags deprecation in the past:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/229673/
> ?

good catch,but this need to be modified (add one line is enough)to cause their use to
cause __deprecated warnings.

> 
> I don't know how many in-initializer (struct x x = { DMA_64BIT_MASK } )
> users are out there though.
> 
> 

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Regards
Yang Hongyang