Re: [PATCH] x86: punit_atom: punit device state debug driver

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 14:42 -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
>  
> +config PUNIT_ATOM
> +	bool "ATOM Punit debug driver"
> +	def_bool n

The kconfig tools will do what you mean here. But just
	default n

is neater. And, moreover, even that is probably not needed, as n is the
default anyway.

> +	depends on DEBUG_FS
> +	select IOSF_MBI
> +	---help---
> +	  This is a debug driver, which gets the power states
> +	  of all Punit North Complex devices.The power states of
> +	  each IP is exposed as part of the debugfs interface.

(This menu will show up in menuconfig's main menu. Shouldn't this be put
in some debug related menu?)

> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile

> +obj-$(CONFIG_PUNIT_ATOM)		+= punit_atom.o

PUNIT_ATOM is a bool symbol, so punit_atom.o will never be part of a
module, correct?

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/punit_atom.c

> +#include <linux/module.h>

Is this include needed (except for the stuff that will be preprocessed
away, see below)?

> +MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(x86cpu, intel_punit_cpu_ids);

MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE will be preprocessed away for built-in code,
according to include/linux/module.h.

> +static void __exit punit_atom_exit(void)
> +{
> +	punit_dbgfs_unregister();
> +}
> +
> +module_init(punit_atom_init);

According to include/linux/init.h this is equal to
	device_initcall(punit_atom_init);

for built-in code.

> +module_exit(punit_atom_exit);

Built-in only code will never call that function.

> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Kumar P, Mahesh <mahesh.kumar.p.intel.com>");

(<mahesh.kumar.p@intel.com>?)

> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Driver for Punit devices states debugging");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");

And these three macros will be effectively preprocessed away for
built-in only code.

But, on the other hand, changing PUNIT_ATOM to tristate allows it to be
built as a module (I just did that). So perhaps that was your intention?


Paul Bolle