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Message-ID: <ef625c1e21c492be8c423730e45e90d92b1ae899.camel@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:51:23 +0000
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: drivers/accessibility/speakup/serialio.c:48:19: warning:
variable 'quot' set but not used
On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 20:01 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello Ben,
>
> A long time ago you added a dependency for speakup drivers on
> CONFIG_ISA, and you also added || COMPILE_TEST as an alternative.
>
> It seems that some platform portability tests then think they should
> be able to build it, even if they don't enable ISA, but then we are
> getting warnings, or even errors, depending on the compatibility macros
> in <asm/io.h> in the !ISA case (here, the parisc compatibility macros do
> not consume their parameter).
>
> Perhaps we should rather use
>
> depends on ISA || (X86 && COMPILE_TEST)
>
> ?
> so that we have compile testing on x86 only (where the inb/outb macros
> always behave fine) to avoid such issues on other archs?
That seems reasonable though unusual.
> Or we tell the architecture maintainers to fix their out macros into
> consuming their parameters?
[...]
It does seem odd for parisc to define the I/O functions this way. I
don't know if it's really a bug.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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