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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove DMA_nBIT_MASK macro
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 10:46:09 +0200
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On 05/07/2009 10:29 AM, Yang Hongyang wrote:
> Shall we use something like below to warn people?
> #define DMA_64BIT_MASK	DMA_BIT_MASK(64);(__deprecated warnings:use DMA_BIT_MASK(64) instead) ?

Something like an irq flags deprecation in the past:
http://lwn.net/Articles/229673/
?

I don't know how many in-initializer (struct x x = { DMA_64BIT_MASK } )
users are out there though.