From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:49:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159850979.5482.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061002214400.0a83b743.akpm@osdl.org>
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.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
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>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:49:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159850979.5482.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061002214400.0a83b743.akpm@osdl.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-03 4:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-02 21:49 Undefined '.bus_to_virt', '.virt_to_bus' causes compile error on Powerpc 64-bit Judith Lebzelter
2006-10-02 23:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-02 23:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 1:22 ` [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386 Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 1:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 1:48 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-10-03 1:48 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-10-03 1:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 1:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 2:55 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-10-03 2:55 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-10-03 4:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-03 4:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-03 11:29 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-03 11:29 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-03 4:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-03 4:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-03 4:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03 4:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03 4:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-10-03 4:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-03 4:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03 4:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03 5:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 5:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 9:36 ` Stefan Richter
2006-10-03 9:36 ` Stefan Richter
2006-10-03 11:24 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-03 11:24 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-03 20:58 ` Undefined '.bus_to_virt', '.virt_to_bus' causes compile error on Powerpc 64-bit Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-10-03 20:58 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-10-03 1:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-03 1:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-03 11:23 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-03 11:23 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-03 1:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-03 1:16 ` Paul Mackerras
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-06 22:30 [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386 Adrian Bunk
2006-06-26 15:10 Adrian Bunk
2006-06-26 15:38 ` Dave Jones
2006-06-26 15:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-26 15:54 ` Dave Jones
2006-06-27 14:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-27 14:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-27 15:17 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-27 19:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-27 19:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-26 16:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-06-26 16:45 ` Dave Jones
2006-06-26 15:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-27 20:33 Adrian Bunk
[not found] <fa.mZJQjHk9A5D4GHpUn7lttlNhH5U@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.aQp/JAmWqmBjqeleRNK2yrIEx2o@ifi.uio.no>
2006-04-22 21:57 ` Dave Olson
2006-04-18 22:07 Adrian Bunk
2006-04-18 22:19 ` Roland Dreier
[not found] ` <20060419051355.GI4825@rhun.haifa.ibm.com>
2006-04-19 18:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-19 18:21 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-04-19 19:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <20060419184957.GK4825@rhun.haifa.ibm.com>
2006-04-19 22:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-06 13:27 Adrian Bunk
2006-01-07 9:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-07 10:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-13 17:02 Adrian Bunk
2005-11-23 22:34 Adrian Bunk
2005-11-18 1:40 Adrian Bunk
2005-11-18 1:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-18 2:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-18 2:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-18 2:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-18 2:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-18 3:17 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-18 3:42 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18 4:03 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-18 4:11 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-19 0:34 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-11-19 0:39 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-19 1:19 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-19 20:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-19 20:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-19 21:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-11-20 23:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-21 4:27 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-19 13:44 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-11-07 20:03 [2.6 patch] add -Werror-implicit-function-declaration to CFLAGS Adrian Bunk
2005-11-10 12:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11 2:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-11 2:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11 20:18 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-11 20:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-12 4:34 ` [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386 Adrian Bunk
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