Re: [lm-sensors] lm90 driver no longer working on PCs in 3.13

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Mon Jan 27 2014 - 12:19:32 EST


On 01/26/2014 04:51 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 02:04:06PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
>> I think I have a better idea: Surround the regulator code, or at least
>> its error handling, in the lm90 driver with
>
>> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF)) {
>> }
>
>> Would that be ok ? If yes I'll submit a patch. I'll do the same in
>> another driver I am working on.
>
> That's not going to have the desired effect in cases where DT is built
> into the kernel but not in use on the current system (which is a
> configuration that gets used) ...

The solution to that particular aspect of the problem is the following:

if (of_have_populated_dt()) {
...

which is a run-time rather than compile-time test.

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