Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:07:24 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386 |
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:13:55AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:07:15AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt are long deprecated, mark them as __deprecated > > on i386. > > You should probably update Documentation/ while you're at it.
Which file under Documentation/ are you referring to?
> Also, IIRC Xen uses virt_to_phys to return guest physical addresses > and virt_to_bus to return machine physical addresses, so the > difference is useful at least in some scenarios.
Solving this should be easy.
And this still doesn't make it right for architecture independent drivers to use virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt.
> Cheers, > Muli
cu Adrian
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