Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Remove typedef declaration

From: Aaro Koskinen
Date: Wed Oct 23 2019 - 13:33:24 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 07:09:43AM +0300, Wambui Karuga wrote:
> Fixes checkpatch.pl warning: do not add new typedefs in
> drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h:41
>
> Signed-off-by: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h b/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h
> index a4ac3bfb62a8..773591348ef4 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
> #define CVMX_NPI_RSL_INT_BLOCKS 0
> #define CVMX_POW_WQ_INT_PC 0
>
> -typedef union {
> +union cvmx_pip_wqe_word2 {

The "real" definition is in arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-wqe.h.

octeon-stubs.h is just a temporary hack to allow compile testing without
MIPS cross-compiler. Changing only the stubs file is not really an
improvement.

A.