Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the driver-core tree

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Feb 10 2021 - 15:16:47 EST


On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:17 PM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:06 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:18 AM Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:47:20PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > After merging the driver-core tree, today's linux-next build (sparc64
> > > > defconfig) failed like this:
> > > >
> > > > drivers/of/property.o: In function `parse_interrupts':
> > > > property.c:(.text+0x14e0): undefined reference to `of_irq_parse_one'
> > > >
> > > > Caused by commit
> > > >
> > > > f265f06af194 ("of: property: Fix fw_devlink handling of interrupts/interrupts-extended")
> > > >
> > > > CONFIG_OF_IRQ depends on !SPARC so of_irq_parse_one() needs a stub.

It's always Sparc!

> > > > I have added the following patch for today.
> > > >
> > > > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:27:56 +1100
> > > > Subject: [PATCH] of: irq: make a stub for of_irq_parse_one()
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > include/linux/of_irq.h | 9 +++++++--
> > > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > Thanks Stephen!
>
> Actually the stub needs to return an error. 0 indicates it found the interrupt.

I have a slight preference if you could add an 'if
(!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_IRQ))' at the caller instead.

If you grep of_irq_parse_one, you'll see there's only a few users
which means it's on my hit list to make it private. Stub functions
give the impression 'use everywhere'.

Rob