From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751314Ab3ELSdg (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 May 2013 14:33:36 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f179.google.com ([209.85.217.179]:35277 "EHLO mail-lb0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750953Ab3ELSdf (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 May 2013 14:33:35 -0400 Message-ID: <518FE07A.9090904@cogentembedded.com> Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 22:33:30 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: Cogent Embedded User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wolfram Sang CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 17/42] drivers/net/ethernet/renesas: don't check resource with devm_ioremap_resource References: <1368173847-5661-1-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de> <1368173847-5661-18-git-send-email-wsa@the-dreams.de> <518EAB9B.8040106@cogentembedded.com> <20130512094202.GA3039@katana> <518FB49B.7030708@cogentembedded.com> <20130512163246.GA2928@katana> In-Reply-To: <20130512163246.GA2928@katana> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello. On 05/12/2013 08:32 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote: > >> You can always try to do: >> >> $ make drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.o >> >> with a .config file you have. It will compile a file regardless of >> whether it's enabled in your .config or not... > Been there. This mainly works for platform independent drivers. In this case: > > CC drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.o > drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c: In function 'sh_eth_dev_init': > drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c:1274:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'sh_eth_reset' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] > drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c: In function 'sh_eth_drv_probe': > drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c:2724:13: error: 'sh_eth_my_cpu_data' undeclared (first use in this function) > drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c:2724:13: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in > drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c: At top level: > drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c:889:12: warning: 'sh_eth_check_reset' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] At least you can try to filter out errors/warning caused by your patch from those that are caused by platform dependency. Concerning this driver, hopefully the platform dependencies will go away in 3.11. > Regards, > > Wolfram > WBR, Sergei