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From: John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: richard@nod.at, marek.vasut@gmail.com,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com,
	computersforpeace@gmail.com, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: xway: fix build undefined MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 14:02:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9847313-cb0b-5cdc-b70f-5fa3f5638473@phrozen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161201133627.38953fb0@bbrezillon>



On 01/12/2016 13:36, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hi Hauke,
> 
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:51:10 +0100
> Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> wrote:
> 
>> The header file with the definition of MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() was
>> missing, add include for linux/module.h to fix the problem in 4.9.
> 
> I tried to enable this driver as a module, and the build failed because
> of a missing symbol (see the following patch).
> Now, if it's not supposed to be compiled as a module, then you should
> modify the Kconfig accordingly.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Boris
> 
> --->8---
> diff --git a/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c
> b/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c index 236193b5210b..29e753556597
> 100644 --- a/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/lantiq/xway/sysctrl.c
> @@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ static void __iomem *pmu_membase;
>  static void __iomem *ltq_xbar_membase;
>  void __iomem *ltq_cgu_membase;
>  void __iomem *ltq_ebu_membase;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(ltq_ebu_membase);

Hi,

i would be against exporting the membase pointers as global symbols. i
already find it annoying that cgu and ebu are not static

	John

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-01 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-30 22:51 [PATCH] mtd: nand: xway: fix build undefined MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() Hauke Mehrtens
2016-12-01 10:35 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-12-01 12:36 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-12-01 13:02   ` John Crispin [this message]
2016-12-01 13:47     ` Boris Brezillon
2016-12-01 13:57       ` John Crispin
2016-12-04 19:15         ` Hauke Mehrtens
2016-12-04 19:19           ` John Crispin
2016-12-04 22:40   ` Hauke Mehrtens
2016-12-05 12:10     ` Boris Brezillon

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