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

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Aug 26 04:35:34 PDT 2014


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.

	Arnd



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