commit 40d4511 "can: Disable flexcan driver build for big endian CPU on ARM" breaks Flexcan on ARM

Marc Kleine-Budde mkl at pengutronix.de
Mon Jan 20 06:37:02 EST 2014


On 01/20/2014 12:32 PM, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The commit 40d451181a7fa57e32bca4632ae7b22f80861a73
> |Author: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
> |Date:   Mon Jan 6 05:21:03 2014 -0800
> |
> |    can: Disable flexcan driver build for big endian CPU on ARM
> |    
> |    Building arm:allmodconfig fails with
> |    
> |    flexcan.c: In function 'flexcan_read':
> |    flexcan.c:243:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'in_be32'
> |    flexcan.c: In function 'flexcan_write':
> |    flexcan.c:248:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'out_be32'
> |    
> |    in_be32 and out_be32 do not (or no longer) exist for ARM targets.
> |    Disable the build for ARM on big endian CPUs.
> |    
> |    Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
> |    Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl at pengutronix.de>
> |
> |diff --git a/drivers/net/can/Kconfig b/drivers/net/can/Kconfig
> |index 9e7d95d..d447b88 100644
> |--- a/drivers/net/can/Kconfig
> |+++ b/drivers/net/can/Kconfig
> |@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ config CAN_JANZ_ICAN3
> | 
> | config CAN_FLEXCAN
> |        tristate "Support for Freescale FLEXCAN based chips"
> |-       depends on ARM || PPC
> |+       depends on (ARM && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN) || PPC
> |        ---help---
> |          Say Y here if you want to support for Freescale FlexCAN.
>>
> completely disables the flexcan driver for all ARM platforms, since the
> symbol CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN does not exist on ARM!

Arnd Bergmann posted a better patch, which I'll include in a pull
request once the net tree is open again.

Marc

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