Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] mailbox: Add NVIDIA Tegra XUSB mailbox driver

[Thierry Reding]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:35:34PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2014 12:20:13 Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:54:43AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 
> > > I'm not sure if it's really worth it. One thing we might do is just
> > > remove all definitions of ioremap_nocache and add a wrapper to
> > > include/linux/io.h, to make it more obvious what is going on.
> > 
> > Yes, I suppose that would work too. I still think there's an advantage
> > in being explicit and avoid aliases like this. Perhaps a __deprecated
> > annotation would help with that?
> 
> I fear adding __deprecated would be too controversial, because that
> would add hundreds of new warnings to code that is not actually wrong.

Right. __deprecated is enabled via Kconfig, though, so people could turn
that off if they don't want to see the warnings. I don't mind very much
either way.

Thierry

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