Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on
	i386
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
       Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:49:39 +1000
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On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 21:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:37:25 +1000
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.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.

Are you sure the warnings won't cause somebody like Al to go through
them all and fix them ?

At least they should be marked either CONFIG_BROKEN or X86 only (or
whatever arch they are supposed to be used on).

Ben.


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