Re: [PATCH]dgrs - Fixes Warnings when CONFIG_ISA and CONFIG_PCI arenot enabled

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Nov 05 2005 - 03:46:46 EST


Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > */
> > #ifdef CONFIG_EISA
> >- eisacount = eisa_driver_register(&dgrs_eisa_driver);
> >- if (eisacount < 0)
> >- return eisacount;
> >-#endif
> >-#ifdef CONFIG_PCI
> >- pcicount = pci_register_driver(&dgrs_pci_driver);
> >- if (pcicount)
> >- return pcicount;
> >+ cardcount = eisa_driver_register(&dgrs_eisa_driver);
> >+ if (cardcount < 0)
> >+ return cardcount;
> > #endif
> >+ cardcount = pci_register_driver(&dgrs_pci_driver);
> >+ if (cardcount)
> >+ return cardcount;
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> >
> I do not know what to think about this one:
> * reduce one #ifdef: good
> * check for something clearly stated not to: not so good

Well a nicer fix would be to provide a stub implementation of
eisa_driver_register() if !CONFIG_EISA, just like pci_register_driver().
Then all the ifdefs go away and the compiler removes all the code for us,
after checking that we typed it correctly.


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