+cc Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
On 2019/6/15 14:18, Yuehaibing wrote:
>
> On 2019/6/2 6:59, Michael Kelley wrote:
>> From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 8:09 AM
>>>
>>> while building without CONFIG_SYSFS, fails as below:
>>>
>>> drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.o: In function 'hv_pci_assign_slots':
>>> pci-hyperv.c:(.text+0x40a): undefined reference to 'pci_create_slot'
>>> drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.o: In function 'pci_devices_present_work':
>>> pci-hyperv.c:(.text+0xc02): undefined reference to 'pci_destroy_slot'
>>> drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.o: In function 'hv_pci_remove':
>>> pci-hyperv.c:(.text+0xe50): undefined reference to 'pci_destroy_slot'
>>> drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.o: In function 'hv_eject_device_work':
>>> pci-hyperv.c:(.text+0x11f9): undefined reference to 'pci_destroy_slot'
>>>
>>> Select SYSFS while PCI_HYPERV is set to fix this.
>>>
>>
>> I'm wondering if is the right way to fix the problem. Conceptually
>> is it possible to setup & operate virtual PCI devices like
>> pci-hyperv.c does, even if sysfs is not present? Or is it right to
>> always required sysfs?
>>
>> The function pci_dev_assign_slot() in slot.c has a null implementation
>> in include/linux/pci.h when CONFIG_SYSFS is not defined, which
>> seems to be trying to solve the same problem for that function. And
>> if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is defined but CONFIG_SYSFS is not,
>> pci_hp_create_module_link() and pci_hp_remove_module_link()
>> look like they would have the same problem. Maybe there should
>> be degenerate implementations of pci_create_slot() and
>> pci_destroy_slot() for cases when CONFIG_SYSFS is not defined?
>>
>> But I'll admit I don't know the full story behind how PCI slots
>> are represented and used, so maybe I'm off base. I just noticed
>> the inconsistency in how other functions in slot.c are handled.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> 268a03a42d33 ("PCI: drivers/pci/slot.c should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS")
>
> make slot.o depends CONFIG_SYSFS
>
> commit 268a03a42d3377d5fb41e6e7cbdec4e0b65cab2e
> Author: Alex Chiang <achiang@xxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Jun 17 19:03:57 2009 -0600
>
> PCI: drivers/pci/slot.c should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS
>
> There is no way to interact with a physical PCI slot without
> sysfs, so encode the dependency and prevent this build error:
>
> drivers/pci/slot.c: In function 'pci_hp_create_module_link':
> drivers/pci/slot.c:327: error: 'module_kset' undeclared
>
> This patch _should_ make pci-sysfs.o depend on CONFIG_SYSFS too,
> but we cannot (yet) because the PCI core merrily assumes the
> existence of sysfs:
>
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `pci_bus_add_device':
> drivers/pci/bus.c:89: undefined reference to `pci_create_sysfs_dev_files'
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `pci_stop_dev':
> drivers/pci/remove.c:24: undefined reference to `pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files'
>
> So do the minimal bit for now and figure out how to untangle it
> later.
>
> If No CONFIG_SYSFS, slot.o is not build
>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>
>
> .
>
