Re: [PATCH v8 01/25] scsi/atari_scsi: Don't select CONFIG_NVRAM

[Michael Schmitz]

Hi Finn,

Am 29.12.2018 um 14:06 schrieb Finn Thain:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2018, LEROY Christophe wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/atari_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/atari_scsi.c
> > > index 89f5154c40b6..99e5729d910d 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/scsi/atari_scsi.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/scsi/atari_scsi.c
> > > @@ -755,9 +755,10 @@ static int __init atari_scsi_probe(struct
> > > platform_device *pdev)
> > >  	if (ATARIHW_PRESENT(TT_SCSI) && setup_sg_tablesize >= 0)
> > >  		atari_scsi_template.sg_tablesize = setup_sg_tablesize;
> > >
> > > -	if (setup_hostid >= 0) {
> > > +	if (setup_hostid >= 0)
> > >  		atari_scsi_template.this_id = setup_hostid & 7;
> > > -	} else {
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_NVRAM
> > > +	else
> >
> > Such ifdefs should be avoided in C files.
> > It would be better to use
> >
> > } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NVRAM)) {
>
> I don't like #ifdefs either. However, as the maintainer of this file, I am
> okay with this one.
>
> The old #ifdef CONFIG_NVRAM conditional compilation convention that gets
> used here and under drivers/video/fbdev could probably be improved upon
> but I consider this to be out-of-scope for this series, which is
> complicated enough.
>
> And as explained in the commit log, CONFIG_NVRAM=y and CONFIG_NVRAM=m are
> treaded differently by drivers. Therefore, IS_ENABLED would be incorrect.

IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_NVRAM) is probably what Christophe really meant to 
suggest.

Or (really going out on a limb here):

IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_NVRAM) ||
( IS_MODULE(CONFIG_ATARI_SCSI) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NVRAM) )

Not that I'd advocate that, for this series.

Cheers,

	Michael