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From: zhouqiao@marvell•com (Qiao Zhou)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Build warning in drivers/dma/mmp_tdma.c
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 10:28:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529E936A.9080203@marvell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gCge1n99c8NGr1=L+PzBCxyWMJvDDQFp-T+mcCRMSMng@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/04/2013 10:15 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Qiao Zhou <zhouqiao@marvell•com> wrote:
>> On 12/04/2013 09:32 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>
>>> Please read the question, you can refer to of_get_named_gen_pool() for
>>> why I have a question.  Something in the system needs to do the
>>> devm_gen_pool_create() for that device.  If you are removing the mmp2
>>> sram driver are you switching to the generic sram driver?  If so
>>> shouldn't you ensure it is built? Otherwise this will always fail:
>>
>> For CPU_MMP2 specifically, it switches to use generic sram driver. But
>> generally it may not use sram only, a DDR buffer(or other buffer) may also
>> be a pool. So here we don't add "select SRAM" directly. In this case we need
>> to enable CONFIG_SRAM in mmp2_defconfig.
>>
>> If no sram or other similar drivers are enabled, it will throw an error for
>> warning.
>>
>
> Ok, So, please turn this into a compile time dependency (depends on
> (SRAM || MMP_SRAM)) so that someone does not need to boot a platform
> to figure out they forgot to enable a driver.
>
Actually I'm not sure it's good to add such dependency. 
sound/core/memalloc.c provides the same way for sram buffer allocation. 
It doesn't add such dependency.

Zhangfei, Haojian, how do you think?

-- 

Best Regards
Qiao

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-04  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-28 22:58 Build warning in drivers/dma/mmp_tdma.c Dan Williams
2013-11-29  5:31 ` Vinod Koul
2013-12-02  6:42 ` Zhangfei Gao
2013-12-02  7:34   ` Qiao Zhou
2013-12-02  7:42     ` Zhangfei Gao
     [not found]     ` <CAPcyv4jfk+JBv7WY_njuYtx8hERZHhoCAij=FOfqxAhLJAHnFA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-12-03  2:13       ` Zhangfei Gao
2013-12-03  2:31         ` Haojian Zhuang
2013-12-03 10:43           ` Qiao Zhou
2013-12-03 11:05             ` Zhangfei Gao
2013-12-04  1:09               ` Qiao Zhou
2013-12-03 21:02             ` Dan Williams
2013-12-04  1:08               ` Qiao Zhou
2013-12-04  1:32                 ` Dan Williams
2013-12-04  1:58                   ` Qiao Zhou
2013-12-04  2:15                     ` Dan Williams
2013-12-04  2:28                       ` Qiao Zhou [this message]
2013-12-04  2:34                         ` Zhangfei Gao
2013-12-04  2:44                           ` Qiao Zhou

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