linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pci: add pci_clear_master() stub for !CONFIG

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Date:	Tue, 8 Mar 2016 18:39:56 -0600
From:	Michael Auchter <michael.auchter@...com>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
CC:	<bhelgaas@...gle.com>, <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: add pci_clear_master() stub for !CONFIG_PCI

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:10:17PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 04:34:41PM -0600, Michael Auchter wrote:
> > Add a stub for pci_clear_master() for when CONFIG_PCI is not set,
> > similar to what's done for pci_set_master().
> 
> Does this fix a problem?  If so, what is it?  Some driver that doesn't
> build when CONFIG_PCI is not set?

I ran into a build failure caused by this not being defined while
compile testing an out-of-tree driver with various configs. It seemed to
me that the lack of a stub may have just been an oversight from when
pci_clear_master() was added.

It looks like all in-tree users of pci_clear_master() correctly declare
a dependency on PCI via Kconfig, so this doesn't really fix a problem,
just makes pci_clear_master more symmetric with pci_set_master.

Cheers,
 Michael