Re: [PATCH] gpio: fix build errors for drivers not strictly requiring GPIOs

[Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 08:28:10PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > Since commit 7560fa60fcdcdb0da662f6a9fad9064b554ef46c (gpio: <linux/gpio.h>
> > and "no GPIO support here" stubs) drivers can use GPIOs if they're available,
> > but don't require them.
> > 
> > This patch actually enables this feature, otherwise drivers will stumble
> > against this:
> > 
> > include/asm-generic/gpio.h:111: error: redefinition of 'gpio_is_valid'
> > include/linux/gpio.h:21: error: previous definition of 'gpio_is_valid' was here
> 
> This looks to me like pure user error ... what was anyone doing
> including <asm-generic/gpio.h> in that way?  There are a *lot* of
> bogus include combinations, and we don't try to "fix" them.

This is true, partially. I saw these errors for the drivers using
linux/of_gpio.h, it includes asm/gpio.h, which includes
asm-generic/gpio.h (I submitted of_gpio.h patch before linux/gpio.h work,
though git log might say otherwise). And yes, I should fix of_gpio.h too.

The thing is, I always thought that it is _good_ practice for the nested
headers to declare/define things conditionally by themselves. That way
you'll not have to fix all combinations, everything will (should) just
work. I.e.

#include <linux/of_gpio.h>
#include <asm-generic/gpio.h>
#include <asm/gpio.h>
#include <linux/gpio.h>

^^ This insanity will work.

Though with current headers, you'll easily catch the bogus users of
the asm/gpio.h thus will discipline the users, that might be a plus
too... ;-)

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