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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 03:32:55 -0500 From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@...il.com> To: "David Brownell" <david-b@...bell.net> Cc: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>, "Paulius Zaleckas" <paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org, "Laurent Pinchart" <laurentp@...-semaphore.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: make mdio-gpio work without OF (v2) On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 03:11, David Brownell wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > If indeed OF functions don't have declarations which are >> > available on all platforms, that might be worth fixing >> > to enable this approach to #ifdef elimination. >> >> OF is open firmware right ? no way there's going to be OF for every >> port that supports GPIO, so filling out the stubs in linux/of_gpio.h >> will need to be done. > > In which case the boolean "we don't have OF" would be "false" and > any code referencing the declared functions would be compiled out > (being dead code/data). So there would be no link-time references > to any OF routines... standard technique. i understand the compiler side just fine. my point is that the current linux/of_gpio.h only defines the OF structure and related prototypes when CONFIG_OF_GPIO is defined. so it needs updating first. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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