Re: [PATCH] tee: add forward declaration for struct device

From: Jerome Forissier
Date: Wed Jun 14 2017 - 07:06:16 EST




On 06/14/2017 01:01 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Jens Wiklander
> <jens.wiklander@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 11:39:50AM +0200, Jerome Forissier wrote:
>>> [+Arnd]
>>>
>>> Ping?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> --
>>> Jerome
>>>
>>> On 05/31/2017 01:21 PM, Jerome Forissier wrote:
>>>> tee_drv.h references struct device, but does not include device.h nor
>>>> platform_device.h. Therefore, if tee_drv.h is included by some file
>>>> that does not pull device.h nor platform_device.h beforehand, we have a
>>>> compile warning. Fix this by adding a forward declaration.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Do we need this to fix a warning in mainline, in linux-next, or only
> in combination with some other patches?

Only with some other patches.

--
Jerome

> I have not run into this warning in my build testing.
>
>>>> include/linux/tee_drv.h | 1 +
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/tee_drv.h b/include/linux/tee_drv.h
>>>> index 8614713..07bd226 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/tee_drv.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/tee_drv.h
>>>> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>>>> #define TEE_SHM_DMA_BUF BIT(1) /* Memory with dma-buf handle */
>>>> #define TEE_SHM_EXT_DMA_BUF BIT(2) /* Memory with dma-buf handle */
>>>>
>>>> +struct device;
>>>> struct tee_device;
>>>> struct tee_shm;
>>>> struct tee_shm_pool;
>>>>
>>
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Can you pick up the patch in your git tree and send a pull request for
> the appropriate release (4.12-fixes or 4.13)?
>
> If you don't expect to send anything else for tee in that release,
> you can also forward the patch to arm@xxxxxxxxxx and ask for
> inclusion. If you just reply with the 'Reviewed-by', I would not
> expect to have to do anything in the arm-soc tree.
>
> Arnd
>