Re: [PATCH] phylib: make mdio-gpio work without OF (v2)

[Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>]

Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 03:11, David Brownell wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>>> If indeed OF functions don't have declarations which are
>>>>> available on all platforms, that might be worth fixing
>>>>> to enable this approach to #ifdef elimination.
>>>> OF is open firmware right ?  no way there's going to be OF for every
>>>> port that supports GPIO, so filling out the stubs in linux/of_gpio.h
>>>> will need to be done.
>>> In which case the boolean "we don't have OF" would be "false" and
>>> any code referencing the declared functions would be compiled out
>>> (being dead code/data).  So there would be no link-time references
>>> to any OF routines... standard technique.
>> i understand the compiler side just fine.  my point is that the
>> current linux/of_gpio.h only defines the OF structure and related
>> prototypes when CONFIG_OF_GPIO is defined.  so it needs updating
>> first.
> 
> This is small problem compared to what you will find in linux/of_device.h
> It includes <asm/of_device.h> which contains main of_device structure
> and this won't work with any non OF platform. Maybe the best solution is
> to write separate driver for OF which will be just wrapper for platform
> driver... Just like you suggested.

Oops... Not you, but Marc Pignat suggested.
 
>> -mike
>>