On Saturday 16 November 2013, Loc Ho wrote: > > > > config SATA_XGENE > > tristate "APM X-Gene 6.0Gbps SATA host controller support" > > depends on ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST > > ... > > > [Loc Ho] > Okay. How about this? > > depends on ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST > select SATA_XGENE_PHY && SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM I think you already found the mistake withis and corrected this in v4. > > The interface you are looking for is pr_debug() or dev_dbg(), which get > > built-in only if the DEBUG macro is set. > > > > In a lot of cases, it's actually best to remove debug output like this from > > the driver once you have it working -- whoever is debugging problems in > > the driver next might need completely different debugging information or > > can add them back easily if needed. > > > > It's your choice if you want to use pr_debug() or remove that output > > entirely. If you remove it, best remove the helper functions entirely > > and use readl/writel directly. > [Loc Ho] > I would like to keep this function for now until this driver actual > being used in production. I will use pr_debug. Ok. > >> diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_xgene.h b/drivers/ata/sata_xgene.h > >> new file mode 100644 > >> index 0000000..51e73f6 > >> --- /dev/null > >> +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_xgene.h > > > > This file should probably just be folded into the driver, since it contains no > > interfaces between modules, just internal definitions. > [Loc Ho] > I can get rip this header file now. But in the future I may need to > add this back as I intended this driver to also support running from > our co-processor (ARMv7 32-bit). For that, I will need anothe file and > other function that will need knowledge of the context structure and > etc. Hmm, is the code for that coprocessor compiled from the kernel source? If not, it shouldn't really make a difference as it won't live in a shared code repository. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
