From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750715AbWFZPrN (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:47:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750719AbWFZPrN (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:47:13 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:61370 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbWFZPrL (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:47:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt as __deprecated on i386 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Dave Jones Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060626153834.GA18599@redhat.com> References: <20060626151012.GR23314@stusta.de> <20060626153834.GA18599@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:46:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1151336815.3185.61.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.