netdev - Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1: PCI=n: drivers/net/3c59x.c compile error

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Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:47:51 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>, htejun@...il.com
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1: PCI=n: drivers/net/3c59x.c compile error

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:15:12 +0300 Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >>>>>>>3x59x-fix-pci-resource-management.patch causes the following compile 
> >>>>>>>error with CONFIG_PCI=n:
> 
> >>>>>>><--  snip  -->
> 
> >>>>>>>...
> >>>>>>>  CC      drivers/net/3c59x.o
> >>>>>>>/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/drivers/net/3c59x.c: 
> >>>>>>>In function 'vortex_init_one':
> >>>>>>>/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/drivers/net/3c59x.c:961: 
> >>>>>>>error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_request_regions'
> >>>>>>>/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/drivers/net/3c59x.c:985: 
> >>>>>>>error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_release_regions'
> >>>>>>>make[3]: *** [drivers/net/3c59x.o] Error 1
> 
> >>>>>>   Grr, at at the same time it's happy with pci_enable_device().
> >>>>>>   I'd say the problem is in <linux/pci.h>,  not in the patch.
> 
> >>>>>   Has there been any patch to fix the "unbalanced" 
> >>>>>pci_{request|release}_regions() declarations? Am I suposed to create 
> >>>>>such?
> 
> >>>>   Alternatively, vortex_{init|remove_one() and struct pci_driver there 
> >>>>could have been put under #ifdef CONFIG_PCI (good idea anyway -- should 
> >>>>reduce driver size on non-PCI systems)...
> 
> >>>    I wonder if I may count on any feedback on this -- asking linux-pci now...
> >>>    The issue is as follows: with my patch pci_{request|release}_regions() may 
> >>>be called with CONFIG_PCI=n (probably, this never has been a issue before) but 
> >>><linux/pci.h> don't have them declared in this case -- unlike 
> >>>pci_enable_device() which is just empty for CONFIG_PCI=n.
> >>>    Now, what kind of approach do I take:
> 
> >>>- a "fair one", so that pci_{request|release}_regions() get "balanced"
> >>>   declarations in the header like pci_enable_device();
> 
> >>>- a "local one" (and even saving non-PCI kernel from needless bloat), i.e.
> >>>   #ifdef out functions that are only meaningful with CONFIG_PCI=y)?
> 
> >>>    I'm leaning to the second now...
> 
> >>I'd prefer the fair one -- add stubs to include/linux/pci.h.
> 
> > Me too, please just send me a patch adding them to pci.h so you don't
> > have to have #ifdefs in your .c code.
> 
>     Erm, before I do that, could somebody explain what
> 
> #define HAVE_PCI_REQ_REGIONS 2
> 
> accompanying their declaration is for? I have't found any references to it in 
> the source. Should I duplicate it for CONFIG_PCI=n case (I guess not)?

I wouldn't since it's not used anywhere, but maybe Tejun could comment
on it...

---
~Randy
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