On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Jason Gerecke <killertofu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On July 28, 2017 6:18:00 AM PDT, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>The driver has gained a compile-time dependency that we should
>>>express in Kconfig to avoid this link error:
>>>
>>
>> Would conditional compilation be an acceptable alternative to adding
>> a dependency? The USB_HID code is only used to check if the driver
>> is working with a USB device. With USB_HID disabled, there's no need
>> for the check so there's no need for the dependency.
>
> I think that should work, e.g. you could replace the hid_is_using_ll_driver
> and 'extern' defintions with a helper per ll-driver like
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_USB_HID
> extern bool hid_is_using_usb_driver(struct hid_device *hdev)
> #else
> static inline bool hid_is_using_usb_driver(struct hid_device *hdev)
> {
> return false;
> }
> #endif
>
> but is it worth it to avoid the dependency?
>
> Arnd
I was thinking something more along the lines of the following since
the idea of per-transport helper functions was dismissed earlier:
#ifdef CONFIG_USB_HID
if (hid_is_using_ll_driver(wacom->hdev, &usb_hid_driver)) {
[...]
}
#endif
Jason
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
