[PATCH v3 5/5] tty/serial: Add Spreadtrum sc9836-uart driver support

Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-12-03T10:11:09Z

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:50:17AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 December 2014 17:17:13 Lyra Zhang wrote:
>
> > 2014-11-27 2:29 GMT+08:00 Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>:
> > > How about sorting this includes? asm/irq.h go first followed linux/ in alphabatical order?
> >
> > There are a few compile warnings if I moved asm/irq.h to the top of
> > all included files.
>
> The order that Murali meant is
>
> - first all linux/*.h headers, sorted alphabetically
> - then all asm/*.h headers, again sorted alphabetically
>
> This is the recommended style in general.
>
> > Warning details are below:
> >
> > In file included from drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c:14:0:
> > ./arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h:6:39: warning: ?struct pt_regs?
> > declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
> > extern void (*handle_arch_irq)(struct pt_regs *);
> > ^
> > ./arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h:6:39: warning: its scope is only this
> > definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
> > [enabled by default]
> > ./arch/arm64/include/asm/irq.h:8:54: warning: ?struct pt_regs?
> > declared inside parameter list [enabled by default]
> > extern void set_handle_irq(void (*handle_irq)(struct pt_regs *));
> >
>
> I would consider this a (minor) bug in asm/irq.h. If you don't mind,
> please submit a patch to add a line with 'struct pt_regs;' to
> asm/irq.h.

A better question is: why is a modern driver using asm/irq.h in the
first place.

We used to include that file when platforms defined IRQ numbers
statically, but modern platforms don't do that, so it shouldn't be
required anymore.

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