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Re: [PATCH] bcma: fix build error on MIPS; implicit pcibios_enable_device

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Hi Paul,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:20, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Re: [PATCH] bcma: fix build error on MIPS; implicit pcibios_enable_device] On 26/03/2012 (Mon 11:13) Julian Calaby wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:02, Paul Gortmaker
>> <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > The following is seen during allmodconfig builds for MIPS:
>> >
>> > drivers/bcma/driver_pci_host.c:518:2: error: implicit declaration
>> > of function 'pcibios_enable_device' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>> > cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
>> > make[3]: *** [drivers/bcma/driver_pci_host.o] Error 1
>> >
>> > Most likey introduced by commit 49dc9577155576b10ff79f0c1486c816b01f58bf
>> >
>> >    "bcma: add PCIe host controller"
>> >
>> > Add the header instead of implicitly assuming it will be present.
>> > Sounds like a good idea, but that alone doesn't fix anything.
>> >
>> > The real problem is that the Kconfig has settings related to whether
>> > PCI is possible, i.e.
>> >
>> >  config BCMA_HOST_PCI_POSSIBLE
>> >        bool
>> >        depends on BCMA && PCI = y
>> >        default y
>> >
>> >  config BCMA_HOST_PCI
>> >        bool "Support for BCMA on PCI-host bus"
>> >        depends on BCMA_HOST_PCI_POSSIBLE
>> >
>> > ...but what is missing is that BCMA_DRIVER_PCI_HOSTMODE doesn't
>> > have any dependencies on the above.  Add one.
>> >
>> > CC: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > CC: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/bcma/Kconfig b/drivers/bcma/Kconfig
>> > index c1172da..fb7c80f 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/bcma/Kconfig
>> > +++ b/drivers/bcma/Kconfig
>> > @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ config BCMA_HOST_PCI
>> >
>> >  config BCMA_DRIVER_PCI_HOSTMODE
>> >        bool "Driver for PCI core working in hostmode"
>> > -       depends on BCMA && MIPS
>> > +       depends on BCMA && MIPS && BCMA_HOST_PCI
>>
>> I don't know the hardware, but I'm sure there'd be situations
>> (probably for embedded devices) where hostmode would be wanted without
>> the PCI host support - so shouldn't this depend on
>> BCMA_HOST_PCI_POSSIBLE?
>
> My reading of things is that BCMA_HOST_PCI is equivalent to, or
> at most a subset of BCMA_HOST_PCI_POSSIBLE.  But if the maintainers
> want to tweak things accordingly, then great -- I'm just reporting
> what I see in build failures.

That's not the case.

BCMA_HOST_PCI is a separate config option that depends on
...._POSSIBLE but is user selectable. ...._POSSIBLE isn't user
selectable and is automatically "y" when the conditions for PCI
support for BCMA are true.

Thanks,

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