On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:13:24PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:16:12PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>> Hi Adrian,
>>>
>>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>>> There exists blackfin hardware with PCI support, but the support
>>>> currently in the kernel fails to build starting with:
>>>>
>>>> <-- snip -->
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> CC init/main.o
>>>> In file included from dma-mapping.h:5,
>>>> from dma-mapping.h:52,
>>>> from dmaengine.h:29,
>>>> from skbuff.h:29,
>>>> from netlink.h:155,
>>>> from genetlink.h:4,
>>>> from genetlink.h:4,
>>>> from taskstats_kern.h:12,
>>>> from main.c:46:
>>>> dma-mapping.h: In function 'dma_supported': ma-mapping.h:24: error:
>>>> implicit declaration of function 'pci_dma_supported'
>>>> ...
>>>> make[2]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
>>> I think we should just remove the underlying comempci access
>>> code which is the only user of this (arch/m68knommu/kernel/comempci.c).
>>> Nobody has used it in a very long time. And the hardware itself is
>>> old, and completely brain-damaged by design.
>>
>> A patch for removing the comempci code is below.
>>
>> It's a bit suspicious that asm/elia.h is now removed since comempci.c
>> was the only user. What's the sttus of the eLIA platform?
>
> Only ever a handful where made, and that was in 1999.
> I doubt anyone could ever use the PCI interface on it
> in any useful way.
So I can send a patch to remove the platform?
>> But COMEMPCI fails with a different error - this init/main.o build
>> error is present for CONFIG_PCI=y, CONFIG_COMEMPCI=n, so the dependency
>> of PCI on BROKEN is still required (unless it gets fixed).
>
> Unless I am mistaken there is now no need for the CONFIG_PCI option
> if selecting m68knommu. The only m68knommu platforms that had PCI
> as far as I know where those that use the comempci part.
That implies I can also kill the m68k PCI code since m68knommu will
never use it?
> The patch looks ok to me too (acked below).
Thanks.
> Regards
> Greg
>...
cu
Adrian
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