Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 076/350] staging/octeon: Use stubs for MIPS && !CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-11T07:52:07Z

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 04:03:01PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 17a29fea086ba18b000d28439bd5cb4f2b0a527b ]
>
> When building for a non-Cavium MIPS system with COMPILE_TEST=y, the
> Octeon ethernet driver hits a number of issues due to use of macros
> provided only for CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC=y configurations. For
> example:
>
> drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c:190:6: error:
> 'CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_CVMSEG_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rx.c:472:25: error:
> 'OCTEON_IRQ_WORKQ0' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> These come from various asm/ headers that a non-Octeon build will be
> using a non-Octeon version of.
>
> Fix this by using the octeon-stubs.h header for non-Cavium MIPS builds,
> and only using the real asm/octeon/ headers when building a Cavium
> Octeon kernel configuration.
>
> This requires that octeon-stubs.h doesn't redefine XKPHYS_TO_PHYS, which
> is defined for MIPS by asm/addrspace.h which is pulled in by many other
> common asm/ headers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> URL: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/CAMuHMdXvu+BppwzsU9imNWVKea_hoLcRt9N+a29Q-QsjW=ip2g@mail.gmail.com/
> Fixes: 171a9bae68c7 ("staging/octeon: Allow test build on !MIPS")
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191007231741.2012860-1-paul.burton@mips.com
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-ethernet.h | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I think this broke the build for 5.5-rc1, so no, please do not include
this. This driver is about to be deleted (see the discussion on the
staging mailing list for details), so this patch can be dropped.

thanks,

greg k-h