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

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Apr 19 2006 - 18:55:09 EST


On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:49:58PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:07:24PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > Which file under Documentation/ are you referring to?
>
> virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() appear in several files, in particular
> DMA-mapping.txt and IO-mapping.txt.

DMA-mapping.txt exlicitely states it's planned with
virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt, and IO-mapping.txt starts with:

<-- snip -->

[ NOTE: The virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() functions have been
superseded by the functionality provided by the PCI DMA
interface (see Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt). They continue
to be documented below for historical purposes, but new code
must not use them. --davidm 00/12/12 ]

<-- snip -->

Patches to update Documentation/ are always welcome, but these two files
already explicitely mention virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt, as deprecated, so I
still don't see any urgent action required.

> Cheers,
> Muli

cu
Adrian

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