RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] misc: mrvl-cn10k-dpi: resolve compilation issues on 32-bit ARM

From: Vamsi Krishna Attunuru
Date: Wed Jul 17 2024 - 08:17:29 EST




>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 5:20 PM
>To: Vamsi Krishna Attunuru <vattunuru@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Greg Kroah-Hartman
><gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>;
>Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] misc: mrvl-cn10k-dpi: resolve
>compilation issues on 32-bit ARM
>
>On Wed, Jul 17, 2024, at 13: 45, Vamsi Krishna Attunuru wrote: > > Neither of
>them worked in our case, HW folks also confirmed that only > 64bit access
>work correctly. > I will just include the header that address the compilation
>
>On Wed, Jul 17, 2024, at 13:45, Vamsi Krishna Attunuru wrote:
>>
>> Neither of them worked in our case, HW folks also confirmed that only
>> 64bit access work correctly.
>> I will just include the header that address the compilation errors
>> with ARCH=arm, anyways nobody will use this driver on 32-bit kernel.
>
>Please just use a Kconfig dependency then. If the device requires 64-bit
>register access, then the driver should not use the fallback.

Ack, since it needs to skip compilation on 32-bit platforms, can you please
confirm below change is suffice or not.

--- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ config NSM
config MARVELL_CN10K_DPI
tristate "Octeon CN10K DPI driver"
depends on PCI
- depends on ARCH_THUNDER || COMPILE_TEST
+ depends on (ARCH_THUNDER || COMPILE_TEST) && 64BIT
help

Regards
Vamsi
>
> Arnd