Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Link all dell-smbios-* modules together

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Feb 27 2018 - 13:02:15 EST


On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Mario Limonciello
<mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some race conditions were raised due to dell-smbios and its backends
> not being ready by the time that a consumer would call one of the
> exported methods.
>
> To avoid this problem, guarantee that all initialization has been
> done by linking them all together and running init for them all.
>
> As part of this change the Kconfig needs to be adjusted so that
> CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM and CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI are boolean
> rather than modules.
>
> CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS is a visually selectable option again and both
> CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI and CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM are optional.

> changes from v1:
> * Move #ifdefs into dell-smbios.h and use static inline functions

> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-smm.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-smm.c

> +#ifdef CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM

Hmm... It's still here.

Hint: in Makefile you need something like

obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM) += dell-smbios-smm.o

> +#endif /* CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM */

> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-wmi.c

> +#ifdef CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI

Ditto.

> +#endif /* CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI */


> +#ifdef CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI
> +int init_dell_smbios_wmi(void);
> +void exit_dell_smbios_wmi(void);
> +#else /* CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI */
> +static inline int init_dell_smbios_wmi(void)
> +{
> + return -ENODEV;
> +}

> +static inline void exit_dell_smbios_wmi(void)
> +{}

One line, please.

> +#endif /* CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI */
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM
> +int init_dell_smbios_smm(void);
> +void exit_dell_smbios_smm(void);
> +#else /* CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM */
> +static inline int init_dell_smbios_smm(void)
> +{
> + return -ENODEV;
> +}

> +static inline void exit_dell_smbios_smm(void)
> +{}

Ditto.

> +#endif /* CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM */

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko