Re: [PATCH 1/2] mips: provide unxlate_dev_mem_ptr() in asm/io.h

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Jun 21 2023 - 10:06:30 EST


On Wed, Jun 21, 2023, at 15:52, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 09:39:42PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The unxlate_dev_mem_ptr() function has no prototype on the mips
>> architecture, which does not include asm-generic/io.h, so gcc warns
>> about the __weak definition:
>>
>> drivers/char/mem.c:94:29: error: no previous prototype for 'unxlate_dev_mem_ptr' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
>>
>> Since everyone else already gets the generic definition or has a custom
>> one, there is not really much point in having a __weak version as well.
>>
>> Remove this one, and instead add a trivial macro to the mips header.
>> Once we convert mips to use the asm-generic header, this can go away
>> again.
>>
>
> This results in build failures when trying to build sh4 images.
>
> drivers/char/mem.c: In function 'read_mem':
> drivers/char/mem.c:164:25: error: implicit declaration of function
> 'unxlate_dev_mem_ptr'

Odd, it looks like arch/sh/ is also missing an #include
<asm-generic/io.h> in its asm/io.h, I was sure that mips was the
only one to still not have that.

There are already patches on the list to convert both, so I think
we'll be fine on sh after this one gets merged:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230609075528.9390-12-bhe@xxxxxxxxxx/

Arnd