Re: [PATCH] drivers: Let several drivers depends on HAS_IOMEM for 'devm_ioremap_resource'

[Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>]

On 07/17/2014 06:48 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 17 July 2014 12:40:25 Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 07/17/2014 11:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Thursday 17 July 2014 09:27:58 Chen Gang wrote:
>>>>                                           gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order);
>>>>   extern void devm_free_pages(struct device *dev, unsigned long addr);
>>>>
>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM
>>>>   void __iomem *devm_ioremap_resource(struct device *dev, struct resource *res);
>>>> +#elif defined(CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST)
>>>> +static inline void __iomem *devm_ioremap_resource(struct device *dev,
>>>> +                                               struct resource *res)
>>>> +{
>>>> +       pr_warn("no hardware io memory, only for COMPILE_TEST\n");
>>>> +       return (__force void __iomem *)ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
>>>> +}
>>>> +#endif /* CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM || CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST */
>>>>
>>>>   /* allows to add/remove a custom action to devres stack */
>>>
>>> To be honest, I think it's a bad idea to introduce wrappers functions
>>> that are only available when CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST is set.
>>>
>>> COMPILE_TEST is a great tool in general, but it has its limits.
>>> In particular, the case for !CONFIG_IOMEM is completely obscure
>>> and we won't find any bugs by allowing more drivers to be built
>>> in those configurations, but attempting to do it would cause
>>> endless churn by changing each instance of 'depends on HAS_IOMEM'
>>> to 'depends on HAS_IOMEM || COMPILE_TEST'.
>>
>> The point of this exercise is that we do not have to replace a good chunk of 
>> 'depends on COMPILE_TEST' with 'depends on COMPILE_TEST && HAS_IOMEM'
> 
> Ok, I see.
> 
>> E.g. the typical Kconfig entry for your random SoC peripheral driver looks like
>>
>> config ARCH_FOOBAR_DRIVER
>>         depends on ARCH_FOOBAR || COMPILE_TEST
>>         ...
>>
>> Now when COMPILE_TEST is not set there is a implicit dependency on HAS_IOMEM 
>> since the architecture will provide it. If COMPILE_TEST is selected the 
>> driver will also be build-able on architectures that do no have HAS_IOMEM 
>> and hence linking the driver fails. One way to fix this is of course to 
>> replace the COMPILE_TEST with (COMPILE_TEST && HAS_IOMEM). But this is very 
>> often overlooked and only noticed later on when somebody actually builds a 
>> allyesconfig on an architecture that does not provide HAS_IOMEM. To avoid 
>> these kinds of build errors and tedious fixup patches the idea is to provide 
>> a stub function when HAS_IOMEM is not enabled, but COMPILE_TEST is enabled.
> 
> AFAICT, NO_IOMEM only has a real purpose on UML these days. Could we take
> a shortcut here and make COMPILE_TEST depend on !UML? Getting random stuff
> to build on UML seems pointless to me and we special-case it in a number of
> places already.
> 

According to current source code, tile still has chance to choose
NO_IOMEM, for me, welcome the tile's maintainer's ideas or suggestions.


Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

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