linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] pm: Move nvs routines into a seperate file.

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Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:05:17 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pm: Move nvs routines into a seperate file.

On Thu 2009-06-11 23:46:27, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday 11 June 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Thu 2009-06-11 15:32:18, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:09:19AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > > > The *_nvs_* routines in swsusp.c make use of the io*map()
> > > > > functions, which are only provided for HAS_IOMEM, thus
> > > > > breaking compilation if HAS_IOMEM is not set. Fix this
> > > > > by moving the *_nvs_* routines into hibernation_nvs.c, which
> > > > > is only compiled if HAS_IOMEM is set.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks, I added the GPLv2 line to the header comment and changed the name
> > > > of the file to hibernate_nvs.c (to match the other changes in the works).
> > > > 
> > > > I'll carry out some compilation testing on it and put it into the tree shortly.
> > > 
> > > Rafael, could you add the patch below as well?
> > > Or should that go in via git390?
> > > 
> > > Subject: [PATCH] PM: add empty suspend/resume device irq functions
> > > 
> > > From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> > > 
> > > git commit 0a0c5168 "PM: Introduce functions for suspending and resuming
> > > device interrupts" introduced some helper functions. However these
> > > functions are only available for architectures which support
> > > GENERIC_HARDIRQS.
> > > 
> > > Other architectures will see this build error:
> > > 
> > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `sysdev_suspend':
> > > (.text+0x15138): undefined reference to `check_wakeup_irqs'
> > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `device_power_up':
> > > (.text+0x1cb66): undefined reference to `resume_device_irqs'
> > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `device_power_down':
> > > (.text+0x1cb92): undefined reference to `suspend_device_irqs'
> > > 
> > > To fix this add some empty inline functions for !GENERIC_HARDIRQS.
> > 
> > I don't think that's right fix. If architecture does not use
> > GENERIC_HARDIRQS, it may want to implement *_device_irqs()
> > itself. Before your patch, it could, after your patch, it can not.
> > 
> > Better put those empty functions in arch/s390/include?
> 
> If any of the affected architectures wants to implement *_device_irqs()
> itself, it can do the appropriate change in future.  For now, let's not break
> compilation on them, shall we?

Well, if one of those architectures will want to implement
*_device_irqs(), it will have to either modify s390, and all other
!GENERIC_HARDIRQS architectures. Not exactly easy task; better do it
right from beggining?
								Pavel
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