linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] avr32: fix build failure

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Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:26:01 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>
Cc:	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] avr32: fix build failure

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 01:31:44PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:33:00AM +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> > Around Mon 21 Sep 2015 12:09:01 +0530 or thereabout, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 08:09:42AM +0200, Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> > >> Around Sat 19 Sep 2015 22:42:57 +0530 or thereabout, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > >> > While building avr32 with allmodconfig, the build used to fail with the
> > >> > message:
> > >> > error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_iomap'
> > >> > error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_iounmap'
> > >> 
> > >> What has changed recently that start pulling in these? AVR32 does not have
> > >> PCI at all, and will never have it either. Is this exposing a bug somewhere
> > >> else?
> > > It looks like pci_iomap and pci_iounmap doesnot depend on CONFIG_PCI.
> > > So drivers/net/ethernet/via/via-rhine.c is calling these functions even
> > > if PCI is disabled. The build log is at:
> > > https://travis-ci.org/sudipm-mukherjee/parport/jobs/81127188
> > > 
> > > You can find a similar discussion at:
> > > http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2013-06/msg00510.html
> > 
> > If multiple architectures have similar problems, then a more global
> > definition of these unused functions could be added.
> > 
> > Just move the implementation for MIPS into include/asm-generic/io.h ?
> > 
> > That way we do not have to implement and identical stub for every device not
> > supporting PCI.
> 
> include/asm-generic/io.h is having:
> #ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP
> struct pci_dev;
> extern void __iomem *pci_iomap(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar, unsigned
> 		long max);
> 
> #ifndef pci_iounmap
> #define pci_iounmap pci_iounmap
> static inline void pci_iounmap(struct pci_dev *dev, void __iomem *p)
> {
> }
> #endif
> #endif /* CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP */
> 
> and CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP is not defined when I do allmodconfig with
> avr32. I have not seen this earlier, maybe in my patch pci_iounmap() was
> not required. But pci_iomap is declared as extern so we need have it
> somewhere.
Hi Hans,
Please suggest.

regards
sudip
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