Re: PNP patch into kernel when?
Andrew E. Mileski (aem@ott.hookup.net)
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:13:48 -0500 (EST)
> > All of the following kernel calls will be marked as deprecated,
> > their usage will cause a warning to be logged, and they will
> > invoke the above hardware resource management API to do their work,
> > but will otherwise be 100% compatible (binary and source):
> >
> > request_region() release_region() check_region()
> > request_dma() free_dma()
>
> Im not sure about logging the warning.
[snip]
> > All occurances of the above calls in the kernel will be replaced by
> > equivalent calls to the proposed NEW hardware resource management API.
>
> Thats ideal. Everything carries on working, and people can fix it over
> time. Like memcpy_tofs/froms slowly vanished
KERN_DEBUG messages will _only_ be issued by "out-dated" modules
and such. They are non-lethal, easy to ignore, and help promote
support of the new API.
I think it can be reduced to messages only on request_region() and
request_dma() calls, as the others are kinda redundant.
You (and everyone else) approve yet?
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Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net
Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/
XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html