Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: Add some dummy static inline functions

[Baolin Wang]

Hi,

On 21 September 2016 at 05:36, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Baolin Wang wrote:
>
>> The patch 2 in this patchset adding tracepoints for alarmtimers will build
>> failed on S390 platform, due to S390 defconfig did not define CONFIG_RTC_LIB
>> macro to define the rtc_ktime_to_tm() function which is used in this patch.
>> Thus we should add some ummy static inline functions in case CONFIG_RTC_LIB
>> is not defined.
>
> I told you before that adding these inlines has the danger that we
> introduce code which uses these functions in places which does not depend
> on RTC_LIB. The resulting wreckage is going to be subtle and hard to debug.

Make sense. (By the way I am sorry I did not receive your previous
comments in my mailbox and I checked again I found it was treated as
spam.)

>
> This still stands and this patch is going nowhere.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx



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