Re: [PATCH] Move EISA_bus

[Mitchell Blank Jr]

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:31:23AM +0200, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > While we're at it, why not setting EISA_bus as 'deprecated', so people
> > will know they'd better move the driver to the EISA probing API ?
> 
> I'd rather not.  It'll cause warnings in arch code that's making
> perfectly legitimate use of it, eg arch/i386/kernel/traps.c that sets
> it or arch/parisc/kernel/pci.c that keys off EISA_bus to know whether
> to direct port access to the EISA or PCI bus adapters.

Perhaps put the "depreciated" tag inside an "#ifdef MODULE" so the warnings
will show up in allmodconfig at least.  Or are there any modules that have
a legitimate use for EISA_bus?

-Mitch
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