Re: [PATCH 02/11] x86: sysfb: remove sysfb when probing real hw

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_SYSFB
>> >> +#  include <asm/sysfb.h>
>> >> +#endif
>> >
>> > I guess a single space is sufficient?
>> >
>> > Better yet, I'd include sysfb.h unconditionally:
>>
>> Unconditionally won't work as only x86 has this header. [...]
>
> Well, in non-x86 code an #ifdef x86 looks ugly as well - but I guess
> better than not building.
>
>> [...] If there's a way to place a dummy into asm-generic which is
>> picked if arch/xy/include/asm/ doesn't have the header, let me know.
>
> Not that I know of.
>
>> But if I include it unconditionally without any fallback, this will
>> fail on non-x86. And adding the header to all archs seems overkill.
>
> So why not drop the x86-ism and rename it to CONFIG_PLATFORM_SYSFB?
> Some platforms configure it, some don't. Then the prototypes could
> move into include/linux/sysfb.h or so and would be platform agnostic.

This is almost exactly what patch #6 does. But it also adds ~400 lines
of kernel-doc and ~400 lines of Documentation/. Given your remarks, I
guess I will just split this patch into code and docs, so we can just
pick it up for stable in case patch #1 does not fix all issues.

Thanks
David
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