linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as _

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Date:	Mon, 2 Oct 2006 21:44:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Judith Lebzelter <judith@...l.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on
 i386

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:37:25 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.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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