linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: base: power: domain: Use 'pm_cpu_data' instead of 'cpu

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Message-ID: <54309F81.9070004@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 05 Oct 2014 09:31:45 +0800
From:	Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	rjw@...ysocki.net, pavel@....cz, len.brown@...el.com,
	ulf.hansson@...aro.org, khilman@...aro.org,
	geert+renesas@...der.be, tomasz.figa@...il.com, richard@....at,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: base: power: domain: Use 'pm_cpu_data' instead
 of 'cpu_data' for compiling break

On 10/5/14 9:13, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 10/5/14 0:00, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 10:19:50PM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>>> 'cpu_data' is too common to be already used by some architectures (e.g.
>>> um, m32r, and mn10300), so need use 'pm_cpu_data' instead of, or cause
>>> compiling break. The related error (with allmodconfig under um):
>>>
>>>     CC      drivers/base/platform.o
>>>   In file included from ./arch/x86/um/asm/processor.h:31:0,
>>>                    from ./arch/um/include/asm/uaccess.h:16,
>>>                    from ./arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h:13,
>>>                    from include/linux/thread_info.h:54,
>>>                    from include/asm-generic/current.h:4,
>>>                    from arch/um/include/generated/asm/current.h:1,
>>>                    from include/linux/mutex.h:13,
>>>                    from include/linux/kernfs.h:13,
>>>                    from include/linux/sysfs.h:15,
>>>                    from include/linux/kobject.h:21,
>>>                    from include/linux/device.h:17,
>>>                    from include/linux/platform_device.h:14,
>>>                    from drivers/base/platform.c:14:
>>>   ./arch/um/include/asm/processor-generic.h:107:19: error: expected identifier or '(' before '&' token
>>>    #define cpu_data (&boot_cpu_data)
>>>                      ^
>>>   include/linux/pm_domain.h:74:23: note: in expansion of macro 'cpu_data'
>>>     struct gpd_cpu_data *cpu_data;
>>>                        ^
>>>
>>> Also need notice about 80 columns boundary.
>>
>> I don't object to this change at all, but it could be easier to solve
>> this by fixing up 'cpu_data' to be named something a bit less "generic"?
>> What does x86 use for this data type?
>>
> 
> It is for some kinds of arm cpu (I let this patch pass arm s3c600

Oh, sorry, typo issue, it is s3c6400 def_config.

> def_config building).  Other architectures did not use it, at present.
> 
> If necessary to complete the comments, please let me know, I shall send
> patch v2 for it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

-- 
Chen Gang

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