[Linaro-acpi] [RFC PATCH for Juno 1/2] net: smsc911x add support for probing from ACPI

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Sep 1 10:14:51 PDT 2014


On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 06:08:49PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On 01/09/14 17:58, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 05:53:33PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >
> >> Confused. Then how come smsc911x_drv_probe() has this line:
> >
> >> 	acpi_handle *ahandle = ACPI_HANDLE(&pdev->dev);
> >
> >> without any #ifdef's.
> >
> > There's a stub smsc911x_probe_config_acpi() provided in the non-ACPI
> > case, Arnd's suggestion is basically to remove the stub.
> >
> 
> I think Catalin is referring to ACPI_HANDLE used without any #ifdefs
> 
> Catalin, few macros like ACPI_HANDLE and ACPI_PTR are defined in
> include/linux/acpi.h even when CONFIG_ACPI is not set mainly to
> avoid #ifdef's around simple assignments like the above one and one
> in platform_driver.acpi_match_table

My comment was to Graeme who said that #ifdef's were needed because
acpi_handle (lowercase) was not defined in the !CONFIG_ACPI case.
However, further down in the patch it was used without any #ifdef's.

-- 
Catalin



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