Re: [PATCH] STAGING: Comedi: Build only on arches providing PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE

From: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org, linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org,
	linux-am33-list@redhat.com, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] STAGING: Comedi: Build only on arches providing	PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:53:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E032940.5010205@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110623114536.GA14011@linux-mips.org>

On 23/06/11 12:45, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On architectures that don't define PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE, the Comedi driver turns
> into tragedy:
> 
>   CC [M]  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c: In function ‘comedi_buf_alloc’:
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:505:41: error: ‘PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:505:41: note: each undeclared identifier is rep orted only once for each function it appears in
> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] Error 1
> 
> Restrict the driver to only those architectures that define PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE.
> 
> PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE is a kludge - some system architectures such as SGI IP27
> are even uable to offer uncached operation - at least in the way an unwitting
> driver might assume.  I haven't looked in details how the driver is using
> the area vmaped with PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE but maybe doing it XFS-style using
> cached memory and the flush_kernel_vmap_range / invalidate_kernel_vmap_range
> APIs in conjunction with the DMA API is a practical alternative.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> 
>  drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig
> index 1502d80..bccdc12 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig
> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ config COMEDI
>  	tristate "Data acquisition support (comedi)"
>  	default N
>  	depends on m
> +	depends on BROKEN || FRV || M32R || MN10300 || SUPERH || TILE || X86

I'm sure I got comedi to compile on a 32-bit PPC board not that long ago. Has
something changed, or is this just not an exhaustive list?

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