Re: [PATCH 12/12] leds: Only descend into leds directory when CONFIG_NEW_LEDS is set

Jacek Anaszewski
2016-06-20T07:41:44Z

On 06/18/2016 12:46 AM, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> On 06/15/2016 01:48 AM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Thanks for the patch.
>>
>> Please address the issue [1] raised by test bot and resubmit.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jacek Anaszewski
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/13/1091
>>
>
> It looks like some systems use 'gpio_led_register_device' to make an
> in-memory copy of their LED device table so the original can be removed
> as .init.rodata. This doesn't necessarily depend on the LED subsystem
> but it kind of seems useless when the rest of the subsystem is disabled.
>
> One solution could be to use a dummy 'gpio_led_register_device' when the
> subsystem is not enabled.

It sounds good. Please add a no-op version of gpio_led_register_device()
to include/leds.h, in a separate patch.

Thanks,
Jacek Anaszewski

> Another is just to remove the five or so uses
> of 'gpio_led_register_device' and have those systems register LED device
> tables like other systems do.
>
> If nether of these are acceptable then this patch can be dropped from
> this series for now.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>> On 06/13/2016 10:02 PM, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>>> When CONFIG_NEW_LEDS is not set make will still descend into the leds
>>> directory but nothing will be built. This produces unneeded build
>>> artifacts and messages in addition to slowing the build. Fix this here.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/Makefile | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
>>> index 567e32c..fa514d5 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/Makefile
>>> +++ b/drivers/Makefile
>>> @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ) += cpufreq/
>>> obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_IDLE) += cpuidle/
>>> obj-$(CONFIG_MMC) += mmc/
>>> obj-$(CONFIG_MEMSTICK) += memstick/
>>> -obj-y += leds/
>>> +obj-$(CONFIG_NEW_LEDS) += leds/
>>> obj-$(CONFIG_INFINIBAND) += infiniband/
>>> obj-$(CONFIG_SGI_SN) += sn/
>>> obj-y += firmware/
>>>
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