From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751316AbWDSWzJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:55:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751315AbWDSWzJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:55:09 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:262 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751316AbWDSWzH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:55:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:55:06 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386 Message-ID: <20060419225506.GG25047@stusta.de> References: <20060418220715.GO11582@stusta.de> <20060419051355.GI4825@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> <20060419180724.GD25047@stusta.de> <20060419184957.GK4825@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060419184957.GK4825@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:49:58PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:07:24PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Which file under Documentation/ are you referring to? > > virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() appear in several files, in particular > DMA-mapping.txt and IO-mapping.txt. DMA-mapping.txt exlicitely states it's planned with virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt, and IO-mapping.txt starts with: <-- snip --> [ NOTE: The virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() functions have been superseded by the functionality provided by the PCI DMA interface (see Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt). They continue to be documented below for historical purposes, but new code must not use them. --davidm 00/12/12 ] <-- snip --> Patches to update Documentation/ are always welcome, but these two files already explicitely mention virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt, as deprecated, so I still don't see any urgent action required. > Cheers, > Muli 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