From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030404AbWAGKxb (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:53:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030405AbWAGKxb (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:53:31 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:16146 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030404AbWAGKxb (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:53:31 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:53:29 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386 Message-ID: <20060107105329.GG3774@stusta.de> References: <20060106132749.GC12131@stusta.de> <20060107015143.65477920.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060107015143.65477920.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:51:43AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt are long deprecated, mark them as __deprecated > > on i386. > > This spews screenfuls of crap at me. Crap which nobody is going to fix. > > Sorry, nope. This is the usual chicken and egg problem: Without a warning noone will fix the code. And yes, some of the drivers affected seem to be maintained (and 49 warnings come from OSS drivers with ALSA replacements another patch I sent removes from the kernel). They might not show up in your all*config builds that set SMP=y, but the warnings with my patch aren't worse than the one's BROKEN_ON_SMP drivers are spitting. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed