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Message-ID: <20061003015820.GG3278@stusta.de>
Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2006 03:58:20 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>
Cc:	Judith Lebzelter <judith@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:48:11PM -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 03:22 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:44:28AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:49:54PM -0700, Judith Lebzelter wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hello:
> > > 
> > > Hi Judith,
> > > 
> > > > For the automated cross-compile builds at OSDL, powerpc 64-bit 
> > > > 'allmodconfig' is failing.  The warnings/errors below appear in 
> > > > the 'modpost' stage of kernel compiles for 2.6.18 and -mm2 kernels.
> > > 
> > > known for ages - the drivers need fixing.
> > > 
> > > 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...
> > >...
> > 
> > In case anyone is interested, the patch is below.
> > 
> > cu
> > Adrian
> > 
> 
> Won't this also cause warnings for valid arch-specific usage (i.e. in
> linux/arch/{i386,x86_64})?

They aren't used under linux/arch/i386/ and my patch doesn't change x86_64.

> Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>

cu
Adrian

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