On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 22:54:45 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > All drivers that are relevant for rpc or footbridge have stopped > using virt_to_bus a while ago, so we can remove it and avoid some > harmless randconfig warnings for drivers that we do not care about: > > drivers/atm/zatm.c: In function 'poll_rx': > drivers/atm/zatm.c:401:18: warning: 'bus_to_virt' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations] > skb = ((struct rx_buffer_head *) bus_to_virt(here[2]))->skb; > > FWIW, the remaining drivers using this are: > > ATM: firestream, zatm, ambassador, horizon > ISDN: hisax/netjet > V4L: STA2X11, zoran > Net: Appletalk LTPC, Tulip DE4x5, Toshiba IrDA > WAN: comtrol sv11, cosa, lanmedia, sealevel > SCSI: DPT_I2O, buslogic > VME: CA91C142 > > My best guess is that all of the above are so hopelessly obsolete that > we are best off removing all of them form the kernel, but that can be > done another time. > > The sound drivers used to rely on virt_to_bus, but don't any more. > As a lot of architectures don't provide VIRT_TO_BUS any more, removing > the dependency in sounds/oss/ would make the deprecated drivers appear > there, which we probably don't want. Instead I'm replacing the > simple dependency with 'VIRT_TO_BUS || RPC || NETWINDER' so we can > still build these sound drivers for the platforms that need them, > but don't change anything on other architectures. Yeah, agreed. > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > --- > No hurry for this one. If we can agree that it's a good idea, we > can probably do the sound/oss change first, and then do the > rest for the following merge window. If nobody cares about picking > up the sound/oss patches, we can also just do it as one patch. I'm willing to apply sound/oss one now. Could you split the patch for that? thanks, Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
