linux-kernel - Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26

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Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:18:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hch@...radead.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arjan@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:11:21 -0400

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:00:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:47:42 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> > 
> > > so i'm not sure where those "over a megabyte of warnings" come from.
> > 
> > allmodconfig.
> > 
> > In file included from include/linux/mm.h:39,
> >                  from include/linux/scatterlist.h:6,
> >                  from include/asm/dma-mapping.h:4,
> >                  from include/linux/dma-mapping.h:52,
> >                  from include/asm/pci.h:6,
> >                  from include/linux/pci.h:945,
> >                  from drivers/ata/ata_generic.c:21:
> > include/asm/pgtable.h: In function `set_pte_at':
> > include/asm/pgtable.h:670: warning: `init_mm' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/sched.h:1616)
> 
> Why is is deprecated anyway?  I think we all agreed that killing the
> export is good, but I don't see any way how we could kill the core
> useage.

set_pte_at() is done inside drivers and what-not, you're not
going to be able to get rid of this export so easily.
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