From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>,
linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC, {skx|i10nm}_edac: Fix randconfig build error
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:01:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190313230137.GA12529@agluck-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3MV=0BbOpjwM+2q+7Oehc=4B+u0hka1YdBnJmikfqCig@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 09:15:13PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 6:58 PM Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> > From: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
> >
> > This seems cleaner than adding all the EXPORTs to skx_common.c
> > I also tried a build with the 0x8A152468-config.gz that Arnd
> > supplied.
>
> It's still a bit fragile since you do something that kbuild doesn't
> expect with having a file in both a module and built-in code
> in some configurations. I'm fairly sure this version works today,
> but it would break the next time that file gets changed to include
> a reference to THIS_MODULE, or anything else that is different
> between built-in and modular code.
>
> Another alternative would be to mark all symbols in this file
> 'static' and then include skx_common.c from the other two files.
> Of course that is also ugly and it increases the overall code size,
> so I don't see a way to win this.
Boris,
So where should we go. Proposed solutions are piling up:
1) Make skx_common a module
[downside: have to EXPORT everything in it]
2) Move module-ish bits out of skx_common
[downside: perhaps fragile]
3) #include skx_common.c into {skx,i10nm}_edac.c
[downside: no patch yet, bigger code size]
-Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-13 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-05 13:21 [PATCH] EDAC: i10nm, skx: fix randconfig builds Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-05 14:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-06 13:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-06 17:58 ` [PATCH] EDAC, {skx|i10nm}_edac: Fix randconfig build error Luck, Tony
2019-03-06 20:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-13 23:01 ` Luck, Tony [this message]
2019-03-14 7:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-14 11:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-14 21:59 ` Luck, Tony
2019-03-15 9:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-15 15:57 ` Luck, Tony
2019-03-15 17:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-15 17:49 ` Luck, Tony
2019-03-15 18:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-15 18:11 ` Luck, Tony
2019-03-15 21:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-15 21:28 ` Luck, Tony
2019-03-22 14:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-22 17:55 ` Luck, Tony
2019-03-22 19:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-21 22:13 ` Luck, Tony
2019-03-22 22:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-22 14:02 Arnd Bergmann
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