Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: PNP patch into kernel when? | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:13:48 -0500 (EST) |
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> > All of the following kernel calls will be marked as deprecated, > > their usage will cause a warning to be logged, and they will > > invoke the above hardware resource management API to do their work, > > but will otherwise be 100% compatible (binary and source): > > > > request_region() release_region() check_region() > > request_dma() free_dma() > > Im not sure about logging the warning. [snip] > > All occurances of the above calls in the kernel will be replaced by > > equivalent calls to the proposed NEW hardware resource management API. > > Thats ideal. Everything carries on working, and people can fix it over > time. Like memcpy_tofs/froms slowly vanished
KERN_DEBUG messages will _only_ be issued by "out-dated" modules and such. They are non-lethal, easy to ignore, and help promote support of the new API.
I think it can be reduced to messages only on request_region() and request_dma() calls, as the others are kinda redundant.
You (and everyone else) approve yet?
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html
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