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From: nsekhar@ti.com (Sekhar Nori)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: davinci: only use NVMEM when available
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:29:00 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570C9CB4.9090409@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458077705-408437-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>

On Wednesday 16 March 2016 03:04 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The davinci platform contains code that calls into the nvmem
> subsystem, but that might be a loadable module, causing a
> link error:
> 
> arch/arm/mach-davinci/built-in.o: In function `davinci_get_mac_addr':
> :(.text+0x1088): undefined reference to `nvmem_device_read'
> arch/arm/mach-davinci/built-in.o: In function `read_factory_config':
> :(.text+0x214c): undefined reference to `nvmem_device_read'
> 
> Also, when NVMEM is completely disabled, the functions fail with
> nonobvious error messages.
> 
> This ensures we only call the API functions when the code is actually
> reachable from the board file, and otherwise prints a unique log
> message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Fixes: bec3c11bad0e ("misc: at24: replace memory_accessor with nvmem_device_read")
> ---
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> The commit that introduced this is currently in the char-misc tree,
> please apply this fixup on top if you haven't already sent it to Linus.

I don't see this patch in Linus's tree still. I can send this fixup
through ARM-SoC since its all touching mach-davinci anyway. Let me know.

> 
>  arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-mityomapl138.c | 5 +++++
>  arch/arm/mach-davinci/common.c             | 5 +++++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

Regards,
Sekhar

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-12  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-15 21:34 [PATCH] ARM: davinci: only use NVMEM when available Arnd Bergmann
2016-03-17 10:26 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2016-03-17 10:30   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-12  6:59 ` Sekhar Nori [this message]

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