[RFC 3/8] of: create of_phandle_args to simplify return of phandle parsing data

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Wed Nov 16 13:47:33 EST 2011


On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com> wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 06:19:38PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> [...]
>> diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
>> index 4948552..566deab 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/of.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/of.h
>> @@ -222,6 +222,13 @@ extern const void *of_get_property(const struct device_node *node,
>>  #define for_each_property(pp, properties) \
>>       for (pp = properties; pp != NULL; pp = pp->next)
>>
>> +#define MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS 8
>> +struct of_phandle_args {
>> +     struct device_node *np;
>> +     int args_count;
>> +     uint32_t args[MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS];
>> +};
>> +
>
> I'm seeing a bunch of warnings like the one below when compiling imx
> with the series.  And moving the definition to somewhere before
> '#include <asm/prom.h>' in linux/of.h removes the warnings for me.
>
>  CC      arch/arm/kernel/devtree.o
> In file included from arch/arm/plat-mxc/include/mach/irqs.h:14:0,
>                 from arch/arm/include/asm/irq.h:4,
>                 from arch/arm/include/asm/prom.h:17,
>                 from include/linux/of.h:133,
>                 from arch/arm/kernel/devtree.c:17:
> include/asm-generic/gpio.h:133:24: warning: ‘struct of_phandle_args’ declared inside parameter list
> include/asm-generic/gpio.h:133:24: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want

Fixed, thanks.

g.



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