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

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Wed Jul 17 2024 - 09:41:43 EST


On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 12:17:08PM +0000, Vamsi Krishna Attunuru wrote:
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 5:20 PM
> >To: Vamsi Krishna Attunuru <vattunuru@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Greg Kroah-Hartman
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> >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

I think it would be a little clearer written as

depends on ARCH_THUNDER || (COMPILE_TEST && 64BIT)

because ARCH_THUNDER can only be defined when 64BIT is set. Regardless
though, that should resolve the issue.

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Nathan