Re: [v2 PATCH 1/2] Add new uio device for dynamic memory allocation

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Hi Geert,

On 2012/11/04 22:20, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Damian Hobson-Garcia
> <dhobsong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> are holding the device file open, the address returned to userspace is
>> DMA_ERROR_CODE.
> 
> Only a small subset of the architectures
> (arm/ia64/microblaze/openrisc/powerpc/sparc/x86)
> seem to define DMA_ERROR_CODE, causing everywhere else:
> 
> drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c: In function ‘uio_dmem_genirq_release’:
> drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c:95: error: ‘DMA_ERROR_CODE’ undeclared
> (first use in this function)
> drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c:95: error: (Each undeclared identifier
> is reported only once
> drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c:95: error: for each function it appears in.)
> drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c: In function ‘uio_dmem_genirq_probe’:
> drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c:238: error: ‘DMA_ERROR_CODE’ undeclared
> (first use in this function)
> make[1]: *** [drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.o] Error 1
> make: *** [drivers/uio/] Error 2
> 
> (e.g. http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/7462173/)
> 
> Furthermore, none of them define it in <uapi/...>, so DMA_ERROR_CODE is not
> part of the userspace API (yet), while it is architecture-specific (some use 0,
> others ~0).
> 
Good points, thank you.  In that case, does fixing the value to
something like ~0 sound like a better (more portable) solution?

Damian

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