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From: moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@yahoo.fr>
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Subject: __pa() versus virt_to_phys()
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Could anybody tell me the difference between these two symbols ?

I know that one is a macro and the other one is an inline function,
so the latter performs type checkings but I don't see anything else.

thanks

Francis