Hi Rob, On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Monday 05 October 2015 13:44:29 Alim Akhtar wrote: >>> CCing Rob Herring, >>> >>> Hi Arnd, >>> >>> On 10/01/2015 04:59 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> > On Thursday 01 October 2015 18:46:34 kbuild test robot wrote: >>> >> [auto build test results on v4.3-rc3 -- if it's inappropriate base, please ignore] >>> >> >>> >> config: x86_64-allmodconfig (attached as .config) >>> >> reproduce: >>> >> git checkout 6e153e3bf7c68b019e987c5a0ffadebd9c7d4fbb >>> >> # save the attached .config to linux build tree >>> >> make ARCH=x86_64 >>> >> >>> >> All error/warnings (new ones prefixed by >>): >>> >> >>> >>>> ERROR: "ufs_hba_exynos_ops" [drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd-pltfrm.ko] undefined! >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > Ah, this seems to be a case of layering violation. It would be best to >>> > restructure the code so that the exynos driver registers a platform_driver >>> > by itself for the respective DT compatible string, and then calls >>> > into the common code from its probe function, rather than having the >>> > generic driver know about the specific backends. >>> > >>> > That approach will also make the generic driver more scalable as we >>> > add further chip-specific variations, and matches what we do in other >>> > drivers. >>> > >>> >>> Looks like some discussions on ufs variant driver probe method happened >>> here [1] few months back. >>> [1]-> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/3/180 >> >> Hmm, too bad we didn't catch it then, it's much more work to fix now. > > What you suggested is what is being implemented[1]. It is not merged > yet. The core is a library and the platform specific parts create the > driver. > > Rob > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/2/364 Thanks for the pointer...let me have a look. At least now we have another variant to test it out. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Regards, Alim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
