linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: at91: avoid defining CONFIG

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Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2016 16:46:35 +0100
From:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	"ARM Maintainers" <arm@...nel.org>
CC:	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: at91: avoid defining CONFIG_* symbols in source code

Le 23/02/2016 15:39, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> In an invalid randconfig build (fixed by another patch),
> I ran across this warning:
> 
> arch/arm/include/debug/at91.S:18:0: error: "CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_VIRT" redefined [-Werror]
>  #define CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_VIRT AT91_IO_P2V(CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_PHYS)
> 
> As Russell pointed out, we should never #define a macro starting
> with CONFIG_ in a source file, as that is rather confusing.
> 
> This renames the macro to avoid the symbol clash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Suggested-by: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>

Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>

Arnd,

Can you please add this patch on top of the arm-soc branches "soc" or
"cleanup" for 4.6.
I don't think that we will have more material for these branches to send
to you before the opening of the merge window.

Thanks for your patch, bye.


> ---
>  arch/arm/include/debug/at91.S | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/debug/at91.S b/arch/arm/include/debug/at91.S
> index 43243be94cfc..d4ae3b8e2426 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/debug/at91.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/debug/at91.S
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
>  #define AT91_IO_P2V(x) (x)
>  #endif
>  
> -#define CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_VIRT AT91_IO_P2V(CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_PHYS)
> +#define AT91_DEBUG_UART_VIRT AT91_IO_P2V(CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_PHYS)
>  
>  #define AT91_DBGU_SR		(0x14)	/* Status Register */
>  #define AT91_DBGU_THR		(0x1c)	/* Transmitter Holding Register */
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>  
>  	.macro	addruart, rp, rv, tmp
>  	ldr	\rp, =CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_PHYS		@ System peripherals (phys address)
> -	ldr	\rv, =CONFIG_DEBUG_UART_VIRT		@ System peripherals (virt address)
> +	ldr	\rv, =AT91_DEBUG_UART_VIRT		@ System peripherals (virt address)
>  	.endm
>  
>  	.macro	senduart,rd,rx
> 


-- 
Nicolas Ferre