netdev - Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1: PCI=n: drivers/net/3c59x.c compile error

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:15:12 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1: PCI=n: drivers/net/3c59x.c compile error

Hello.

Greg KH wrote:

>>>>>>>3x59x-fix-pci-resource-management.patch causes the following compile 
>>>>>>>error with CONFIG_PCI=n:

>>>>>>><--  snip  -->

>>>>>>>...
>>>>>>>  CC      drivers/net/3c59x.o
>>>>>>>/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/drivers/net/3c59x.c: 
>>>>>>>In function 'vortex_init_one':
>>>>>>>/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/drivers/net/3c59x.c:961: 
>>>>>>>error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_request_regions'
>>>>>>>/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/drivers/net/3c59x.c:985: 
>>>>>>>error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_release_regions'
>>>>>>>make[3]: *** [drivers/net/3c59x.o] Error 1

>>>>>>   Grr, at at the same time it's happy with pci_enable_device().
>>>>>>   I'd say the problem is in <linux/pci.h>,  not in the patch.

>>>>>   Has there been any patch to fix the "unbalanced" 
>>>>>pci_{request|release}_regions() declarations? Am I suposed to create 
>>>>>such?

>>>>   Alternatively, vortex_{init|remove_one() and struct pci_driver there 
>>>>could have been put under #ifdef CONFIG_PCI (good idea anyway -- should 
>>>>reduce driver size on non-PCI systems)...

>>>    I wonder if I may count on any feedback on this -- asking linux-pci now...
>>>    The issue is as follows: with my patch pci_{request|release}_regions() may 
>>>be called with CONFIG_PCI=n (probably, this never has been a issue before) but 
>>><linux/pci.h> don't have them declared in this case -- unlike 
>>>pci_enable_device() which is just empty for CONFIG_PCI=n.
>>>    Now, what kind of approach do I take:

>>>- a "fair one", so that pci_{request|release}_regions() get "balanced"
>>>   declarations in the header like pci_enable_device();

>>>- a "local one" (and even saving non-PCI kernel from needless bloat), i.e.
>>>   #ifdef out functions that are only meaningful with CONFIG_PCI=y)?

>>>    I'm leaning to the second now...

>>I'd prefer the fair one -- add stubs to include/linux/pci.h.

> Me too, please just send me a patch adding them to pci.h so you don't
> have to have #ifdefs in your .c code.

    Erm, before I do that, could somebody explain what

#define HAVE_PCI_REQ_REGIONS 2

accompanying their declaration is for? I have't found any references to it in 
the source. Should I duplicate it for CONFIG_PCI=n case (I guess not)?

> thanks,

> greg k-h

WBR, Sergei
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