From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <mzyngier@freesurf.fr>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move EISA_bus
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:38:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030910153816.GA84652@gaz.sfgoth.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030910114749.GR18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:31:23AM +0200, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > While we're at it, why not setting EISA_bus as 'deprecated', so people
> > will know they'd better move the driver to the EISA probing API ?
>
> I'd rather not. It'll cause warnings in arch code that's making
> perfectly legitimate use of it, eg arch/i386/kernel/traps.c that sets
> it or arch/parisc/kernel/pci.c that keys off EISA_bus to know whether
> to direct port access to the EISA or PCI bus adapters.
Perhaps put the "depreciated" tag inside an "#ifdef MODULE" so the warnings
will show up in allmodconfig at least. Or are there any modules that have
a legitimate use for EISA_bus?
-Mitch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-10 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-09 22:29 [PATCH] Move EISA_bus Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-10 5:31 ` Marc Zyngier
2003-09-10 11:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-10 15:38 ` Mitchell Blank Jr [this message]
2003-09-10 16:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-10 17:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
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