Re: [PATCH -next] efi: Do not include asm/efi.h if not needed

Ard Biesheuvel
2016-01-10T17:02:29Z

On 10 January 2016 at 16:35, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> Commit f7d924894265 ("arm64/efi: refactor EFI init and runtime code
> for reuse by 32-bit ARM") adds an include of asm/efi.h to efi.c.
> This causes a build failure for ia64, where asm/efi.h does not exist.
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:28:21: fatal error:
> asm/efi.h: No such file or directory
>
> asm/efi.h does not define or declare anything used by efi.c, thus
> including it should not be needed.
>
> Fixes: f7d924894265 ("arm64/efi: refactor EFI init and runtime code for reuse by 32-bit ARM")
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

This fixes ia64 but breaks ARM

drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c: In function ‘efi_mem_desc_lookup’:
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:291:3: error: implicit declaration of
function ‘early_memremap’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:291:6: warning: assignment makes pointer
from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:301:4: error: implicit declaration of
function ‘early_memunmap’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c: In function ‘efi_config_parse_tables’:
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:404:7: warning: assignment makes pointer
from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c: In function ‘efi_config_init’:
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:433:16: warning: assignment makes pointer
from integer without a cast [enabled by default]

> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> index cffa89b3317b..027ca212179f 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -25,8 +25,6 @@
> #include <linux/io.h>
> #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>
> -#include <asm/efi.h>
> -
> struct efi __read_mostly efi = {
> .mps = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
> .acpi = EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR,
> --
> 2.1.4
>