Re: [PATCH] ata: libahci: Use of_platform_device_create only if supported

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 01/31/2015 09:08 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 08:53:36AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> I agree, it is weird, as is the whole "all API functions associated
>> with OF_ADDRESS are handled differently on sparc" thing. But that
>> is neither new nor something I can fix.
>
> Out of curiousity, why isn't the header file doing the following?
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_OF_ADDRESS
>
> void of_platform_device_create(blah);
> ...
>
> #else
>
> static inline void of_platform_device_create(blah)
> {
> }
>
> #endif
>

Maybe it is to ensure that the callers realize that the code won't
always work as intended, but I don't really know. It is kind of annoying,
though, since the resulting compile errors show up on a regular basis.
Mostly they are resolved by disabling the affected code for sparc,
but obviously that won't work here.

AFAIK this only affects sparc, all other architectures support OF_ADDRESS.

There was some discussion to get rid of OF_ADDRESS at some point,
so there is hope that this will get resolved. Until then all we can do
is to put in bandages.

Guenter