Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386

Andrew Morton
2006-10-03T04:47:21Z

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.