linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] net: hisilicon: Never build on SPARC

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Message-ID: <3819536.piFndcizrV@wuerfel>
Date:	Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:30:17 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] net: hisilicon: Never build on SPARC

On Friday 06 November 2015 11:16:52 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 02:53:20PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:11:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 October 2015 10:03:05 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > Anyway, if it gets that complicated, I think we should stick with
> > > > just returning OF_BAD_ADDR. The above really suggests the need for
> > > > an architecture specific solution.
> > > 
> > > Probably no harm in this really: the far more common
> > > of_address_to_resource() and of_iomap() helpers are equally
> > > broken on SPARC and we just return a runtime error for those
> > > as well without CONFIG_OF_ADDRESS rather than breaking the build.
> > > 
> > Agreed. Given this, returning OF_BAD_ADDR sounds like a better choice.
> > 
> Arnd,
> 
> do you know if a fix for this problem is pending in some branch ?
> Mainline sparc builds are now affected.
> 

I don't think anyone wrote the patch to do this. Can you send one?

	Arnd
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