Re: [PATCH 1/2] ses: use scsi_is_sas_rphy instead of is_sas_attached

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:59:25AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 16:40 +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:25:53AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 22:11 +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> > > > Hi Johannes,
> > > > 
> > > > [auto build test ERROR on scsi/for-next]
> > > > [also build test ERROR on v4.8-rc2 next-20160815]
> > > > [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a
> > > > note to help improve the system]
> > > 
> > > This is happening because scsi_is_sas_rphy wasn't designed to be 
> > > used outside the SAS transport class, so it's failing when the 
> > > ATTRs aren't defined.
> > > 
> > > This is the way you fix it (needs to be a precursor patch to 1/2):
> > > 
> > > James
> > 
> > Thanks, but I'm wondering about the call to sas_get_address(). It was
> > there before the patch as well and now it's an undefined reference. 
> > Am I missing something here? Sure it can be guarded in the #if block.
> 
> Yes: gcc is kind enough to elide any code that looks like
> 
> if (0) {
> 	refer to something
> }
> 
> So the static inline ensures anything within the brace isn't used as a
> linkable reference.

Aaahhh, that explains a lot.

Anyways, I've included get_sas_address() in the ifdef guard and
compile tested the new series with and with out
CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_ATTRS. Will send out shortly.

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