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Message-ID: <70ff59ea-378c-4d53-899a-eafffcad22fd@sifive.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:36:25 -0600
From:   Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@...ive.com>
To:     Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>
Cc:     Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] RISC-V: Add stubs for
 sbi_console_putchar/getchar()

Hi Anup,

On 2023-11-17 9:38 PM, Anup Patel wrote:
> The functions sbi_console_putchar() and sbi_console_getchar() are
> not defined when CONFIG_RISCV_SBI_V01 is disabled so let us add
> stub of these functions to avoid "#ifdef" on user side.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h
> index 0892f4421bc4..66f3933c14f6 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h
> @@ -271,8 +271,13 @@ struct sbiret sbi_ecall(int ext, int fid, unsigned long arg0,
>  			unsigned long arg3, unsigned long arg4,
>  			unsigned long arg5);
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_SBI_V01
>  void sbi_console_putchar(int ch);
>  int sbi_console_getchar(void);
> +#else
> +static inline void sbi_console_putchar(int ch) { }
> +static inline int sbi_console_getchar(void) { return -ENOENT; }

"The SBI call returns the byte on success, or -1 for failure."

So -ENOENT is not really an appropriate value to return here.

Regards,
Samuel

> +#endif
>  long sbi_get_mvendorid(void);
>  long sbi_get_marchid(void);
>  long sbi_get_mimpid(void);