Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:46:55 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 11:38 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt are long deprecated, mark them as __deprecated > > on i386. > > > > Without such warnings people will never update their code and fix > > the errors in PPC64 builds. > > .. and deprecating pm_send_all, cli, sti, restore_flags, check_region yadayada > has really been a great success at motivating people to fix those up too.
cli/sti should just be removed, or at least have those drivers marked BROKEN... nobody is apparently using them anyway...
Maybe depreciation needs to go together with a "will mark users broken in X days, and will remove entirely in X+Y days".. and then stick to it.
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