Re: [RFC PATCH] platform: ioremap: Build iomap functions even without HAS_IOMEM

[Brendan Higgins]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:45 PM David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> A number of drivers use devm_platform_ioremap_resource(), but do not (or
> did not) explicitly depend on IOMEM[1,2]. Given that the only platform
> without HAS_IOMEM seems to be UML, and it has sufficient stubs for
> devm_platform_ioremap_resource() and its dependencies to build, we can
> remove the HAS_IOMEM requirement here, rather than playing whack-a-mole
> with different drivers which don't try to build against ARCH=um.
>
> The reason this works at the moment is that stub ioremap and iounmap
> functions were added to UML to support this sort-of thing[3]. This
> particular change doesn't require adding any additional stubs, but there
> is possibly room in the future to stub out the remaining iomem functions
> (or to provide mock implementations for testing), and get rid of
> HAS_IOMEM entirely.
>
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/30/176
> [2]:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1e7468bd9d30a21e059af477106dc5588ae52dff
> [3]:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1405627.html
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>