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