Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm] ASIC3 driver

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:53:00 +0200 Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:05:44PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:12:41 +0200
> > Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com> wrote:
> 
> > > +#include <linux/module.h>
> > > +#include <linux/version.h>
> > > +#include <linux/irq.h>
> > 
> > Please see the large comment at the top of linux/irq.h.  I believe this
> > driver will fial to compile on at least arm.
> It doesn't build as a module, since we need the irq.h symbols.
> I changed MFD_ASIC3 to bool. I somehow feel that this is not the cleanest
> solution, but OTOH I think that dynamically adding IRQs and GPIOs to an
> embedded board doesn't make much sense.

We seem to have miscommunicated here.  <linux/irq.h> contains references to
things which only some architectures actually implement.  I don't know
which architectures those are, but it includes common ones like x86, so
it's a real trap.  I recall it does not include arm, so your code might
break on arm.

At least, that's what's _supposed_ to happen: I just compiled and linked
this driver into an ARM kernel with no problems so now I'm all confused as
to what the problem was.

Oh well, we'll see...