On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 05:52:31PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 06:18:36AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > The code doesn't compile due to incompatible pointer errors such as > > > > drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-tx.c:649:50: error: > > passing argument 1 of 'cvmx_wqe_get_grp' from incompatible pointer type > > > > This is due to mixing, for example, cvmx_wqe_t with 'struct cvmx_wqe'. > > > > Unfortunately, one can not just revert the primary offending commit, as doing so > > results in secondary errors. This is made worse by the fact that the "removed" > > typedefs still exist and are used widely outside the staging directory, > > making the entire set of "remove typedef" changes pointless and wrong. > > Ugh, sorry about that. > > > Reflect reality and mark the driver as BROKEN. > > Should I just delete this thing? No one seems to be using it and there > is no move to get it out of staging at all. > > Will anyone actually miss it? It can always come back of someone > does... > All it does is causing trouble and misguided attempts to clean it up. If anything, the whole thing goes into the wrong direction (declare a complete set of dummy functions just to be able to build the driver with COMPILE_TEST ? Seriously ?). I second the motion to drop it. This has been in staging for 10 years. Don't we have some kind of time limit for code in staging ? If not, should we ? If anyone really needs it, that person or group should really invest the time to get it out of staging for good. Guenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
