linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging:board: fix build errors and warnings

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Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2014 02:07:56 +0800
From:	Tsung-Han Lin <tsunghan.tw@...il.com>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging:board: fix build errors and warnings

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:36:10AM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Tue,  9 Dec 2014 01:24:09 +0800
> , Tsung-Han Lin <tsunghan.tw@...il.com>
>  wrote:
> > Add dummy implementation of 'of_find_all_nodes',
> > and remove the unnecessary 'of_can_translate_address',
> > which is already removed in commit
> > d9c6866be8a145e32da616d8dcbae806032d75b5 ("of: kill off
> > of_can_translate_address"), to fix the build errors and warnings
> > found by sparse.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tsung-Han Lin <tsunghan.tw@...il.com>
> 
> ???
> 
> This code is just weird. If CONFIG_OF is not enabled, then board.c
> shouldn't be compiled at all. You can do this with a patch to the
> Kconfig and Makefile. Also, if the functions in
> drivers/staging/board/board.c are needed for driver support, then please
> propose a patch that moves them in into drivers/of/base.c so that they
> can be reviewed properly. They are so short and simple that fixing them
> up as part of the normal review process should be sufficient.
> 
> As for fixing the compile error, please drop the change to
> include/linux/of.h and resubmit.
> 
> g.
> 
> 

Sorry it took me sometime to understand what I got wrong,
and thank you for your suggestion.
I will re-send a fix for this.

I just built those codes with wrong .config and options.
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