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

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

On 07/15/2014 08:53 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 07/14/2014 05:34 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
>> On 07/14/2014 05:22 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
>>>
>>> 在 2014年7月14日，下午4:57，Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> 写道：
>>>
>>>> Am 14.07.2014 10:48, schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen:
>>>>> On 07/14/2014 10:31 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>>>> Am 13.07.2014 22:17, schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 09:33:38PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>>>>>> Maybe we could add COMPILE_TEST to the version string too?
>>>>>>>> Just to detect such kernels fast in user bug reports...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What kind of bug report are you going to get?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> User manages to enable CONFIG_FOO by selecting COMPILE_TEST and
>>>>>> complains that it does not work. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> These drivers are typically drivers for some SoC peripheral and the
>>>>> device will simply physically not exist on a platform that does not
>>>>> provide HAS_IOMEM. This is not really any
>>>>> different from making the driver selectable via COMPILE_TEST for
>>>>> any other platform. To hit the issue you'd have to instantiate a
>>>>> device driver instance for a device that
>>>>> physically does not exist. This will always result in a failure.
>>>>
>>>> Okay, you have convinced me. :)
>>>>
>>
>> After search the history patches, I found one related patch which made
>> by myself (when I am in Asianux):
>>
>>    "https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/1/641"
>>
>> For me, it is a long discussion, and forced many members have to join
>> in. Please help check again.
>>
> 
> One thing you could try would be to return NULL (or where appropriate
> an error) in the #else case of CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM and CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT,
> ie dont take COMPILE_TEST into account at all. Obviously that means
> you won't be able to dump a warning message in the COMPILE_TEST
> case, but at least the code would compile. The rejection of above patch
> would make a good case for this approach.
> 

OK, thanks: at least, it can be improved.  But still welcome any other
opinions of another related members.

Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

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