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From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>,
	David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi, property: Export acpi_dev_prop_read_single call.
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:43:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C212F6.40504@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5621301.c1YGTkGNQk@vostro.rjw.lan>

On 05.08.2015 15:48, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 04, 2015 04:01:59 PM David Daney wrote:
>> From: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org>
>>
>> Fixes the following build error when building drivers as modules:
>>
>>   ERROR: "acpi_dev_prop_read_single" [drivers/net/phy/mdio-octeon.ko] undefined!
>>   ERROR: "acpi_dev_prop_read_single" [drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/thunder_bgx.ko] undefined!
>
> Can you please tell me why the drivers in question use that function
> directly, although they aren't supposed to?
>
> Clearly, their authors had not tried to build them as modules or they
> would have noticed the problem at the development stage already.
>
> What would be wrong with using the generic device properties API instead?
>
Yes, you are right. We should use:
int device_property_read_u64_array(struct device *dev, const char 
*propname, u64 *val, size_t nval);

Regards,
Tomasz


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-05 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-04 23:01 [PATCH] acpi, property: Export acpi_dev_prop_read_single call David Daney
2015-08-05 13:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-08-05 13:43   ` Tomasz Nowicki [this message]
2015-08-05 17:26     ` David Daney
2015-08-05 20:14       ` David Daney
2015-08-05 23:23         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-08-05 23:17           ` David Daney
2015-08-05 23:55             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-08-05 23:49               ` David Daney
2015-08-05 23:45           ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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