Re: [PATCH 1/6] rtc: generic: allow building on all architectures

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Mar 02 2016 - 03:57:35 EST


Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are four architectures using this driver, but since we can
> build it with COMPILE_TEST, we should try dealing with the absence
> of the asm/rtc.h header file, to avoid getting a build error:
>
> drivers/rtc/rtc-generic.c:12:21: fatal error: asm/rtc.h: No such file or directory
>
> This creates an alternative use of the driver, allowing architectures
> to pass a set of rtc_class_ops in platform data. We can convert the
> four architectures to use this and then remove the original
> code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/rtc/rtc-generic.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-generic.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-generic.c
> index e782ebd719b2..d726c6aa96a8 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-generic.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
> #include <linux/platform_device.h>
> #include <linux/rtc.h>
>
> +#if defined(CONFIG_M68K) || defined(CONFIG_PARISC) || \
> + defined(CONFIG_PPC) || defined(CONFIG_SUPERH32)
> #include <asm/rtc.h>
>
> static int generic_get_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
> @@ -33,13 +35,21 @@ static const struct rtc_class_ops generic_rtc_ops = {
> .read_time = generic_get_time,
> .set_time = generic_set_time,
> };
> +#else
> +#define generic_rtc_ops *(struct rtc_class_ops*)NULL
> +#endif
>
> static int __init generic_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> {
> struct rtc_device *rtc;
> + const struct rtc_class_ops *ops;
> +
> + ops = dev_get_platdata(&dev->dev);
> + if (!ops)
> + ops = &generic_rtc_ops;

I hope no compiler version treats "&*(struct rtc_class_ops*)NULL" as
undefined behavior?

>
> rtc = devm_rtc_device_register(&dev->dev, "rtc-generic",
> - &generic_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
> + ops, THIS_MODULE);
> if (IS_ERR(rtc))
> return PTR_ERR(rtc);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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