Re: drivers/pinctrl/cirrus/pinctrl-lochnagar.c:52:53: error: pasting "LOCHNAGAR1_" and "(" does not give a valid preprocessing token

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Nov 15 2023 - 05:28:41 EST


On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 11:25 AM Charles Keepax
<ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:57:29AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:37 AM Charles Keepax
> > <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 02:40:38PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 6:19 AM kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > It has somewhat been on my radar to fix at some point, but I have
> > > in general been a little unsure how to proceed. RST feels like
> > > a mega over generic macro name to be exporting, so in some ways
> > > feels like fixing that would be nice. On the other side, renaming
> > > the register on the Lochnagar side would be very easy, although it
> > > would mean the register naming no longer matches all the hardware
> > > documentation which would be kinda lame.
> >
> > If MIPS breaks things like this because of weird defines I would say
> > it is actually fair to just quirk it in Kconfig with a comment:
> >
> > # MIPS occupy very generic defines
> > depends on !MIPS
>
> Hm... hadn't considered that. The driver is pretty unlikely to be
> needed on MIPS anytime soon, so might be a reasonable work around
> for now. Would you like me to fire in a patch, or you want to?

Send it and I'll merge it.

I don't see the value in MIPS compile coverage for this driver,
since it already builds fine with e.g. m68k big endian.

Yours,
Linus Walleij