linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] sas: provide stub implementations for scsi_is_sas_phy and sas_get

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Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:09:55 -0700
From:	James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux SCSI Mailinglist <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] sas: provide stub implementations for
 scsi_is_sas_phy and sas_get_address

On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 17:12 +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> +static inline u64 sas_get_address(struct scsi_device *sdev)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}

To be honest, we don't want this.  We do want the code to fail to
compile if you ever use sas_get_address where you shouldn't because the
code will be incorrect at that point.  If we could return an error,
fine, but we just return the address.

James