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

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Message-ID: <45222F2D.9020808@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:36:45 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, 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

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> 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 ?

If you mean by "fix" to actually convert to generic DMA mapping, then
this task may turn out to require in-depth knowledge of the driver and
its field of application in some or many of these cases.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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