linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] ACPI: import watchdog info of GTDT into platform device

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Date:	Tue, 26 May 2015 11:24:03 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>, fu.wei@...aro.org,
	Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com, linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	tekkamanninja@...il.com, graeme.gregory@...aro.org,
	al.stone@...aro.org, ashwin.chaugule@...aro.org, arnd@...db.de,
	vgandhi@...eaurora.org, wim@...ana.be, jcm@...hat.com,
	leo.duran@....com, corbet@....net, mark.rutland@....com,
	catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] ACPI: import watchdog info of GTDT into platform
 device

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:35:19AM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On 05/26/2015 03:28 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> 
> >>      early_acpi_os_unmap_memory((char *)table, tbl_size);
> >>  }
> >
> >please add
> >
> >#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_SBSA_WATCHDOG
> >(acpi gtdt code)
> >#endif
> 
> I don't agree with this.  The GTDT should be parsed even if there's no
> watchdog driver compiled for this kernel.  There are no other #ifdefs in
> this file.
> 

Me not either, but then I thought this is really a maintainer question.
If the maintainers want out-of-subsystem #ifdefs in the code, who am I
to complain.

Should be "#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM_SBSA_WATCHDOG)", though, if we go
along that route.

Guenter
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