[arm:phy-cleanup 10/10] arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-platform.c:1064:15: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant

[David Daney]

On 01/19/2017 05:54 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Is there a reason why there's these MODULE_* macros at the bottom of
> this file?  From what I can see:
>
> (a) this file can't be built as a module as the Makefile doesn't allow it:
>     obj-y := cpu.o setup.o octeon-platform.o octeon-irq.o csrc-octeon.o
>
> (b) this file will not be functional as a module anyway, because of the
>     multiple *_initcall() statements, each of which are translated to
>     a module_init() call, each of which define an alias to
>     int init_module(void) - and that will cause a build error.
>
> Can we just kill these, rather than adding a linux/module.h include to
> this file?

Yes, as you note, this file cannot be built as a module.

You can add: Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney at cavium.com> to a patch 
that removes the offending MODULE_*

Thanks for venturing into the murky world of MIPS,
David Daney

>
> Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 09:08:42PM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
>> tree:   git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm.git phy-cleanup
>> head:   ef8cb7d5f838770f22cae0e20fee8d1157fc88fd
>> commit: ef8cb7d5f838770f22cae0e20fee8d1157fc88fd [10/10] net: dsa: remove unnecessary phy*.h includes
>> config: mips-cavium_octeon_defconfig (attached as .config)
>> compiler: mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc (Debian 6.1.1-9) 6.1.1 20160705
>> reproduce:
>>         wget https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
>>         chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
>>         git checkout ef8cb7d5f838770f22cae0e20fee8d1157fc88fd
>>         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
>>         make.cross ARCH=mips
>>
>> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
>>
>>>> arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-platform.c:1064:15: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant
>>     MODULE_AUTHOR("David Daney <ddaney at caviumnetworks.com>");
>>                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>    arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-platform.c:1065:16: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant
>>     MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>>                    ^~~~~
>>    arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-platform.c:1066:20: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant
>>     MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Platform driver for Octeon SOC");
>>                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> vim +1064 arch/mips/cavium-octeon/octeon-platform.c
>>
>> d617f9e9 David Daney   2013-12-03  1048  				break;
>> d617f9e9 David Daney   2013-12-03  1049  			default:
>> d617f9e9 David Daney   2013-12-03  1050  				break;
>> d617f9e9 David Daney   2013-12-03  1051  			}
>> d617f9e9 David Daney   2013-12-03  1052  		}
>> d617f9e9 David Daney   2013-12-03  1053  	}
>> d617f9e9 David Daney   2013-12-03  1054
>> 7ed18152 David Daney   2012-07-05  1055  	return 0;
>> 7ed18152 David Daney   2012-07-05  1056  }
>> 7ed18152 David Daney   2012-07-05  1057
>> 7ed18152 David Daney   2012-07-05  1058  static int __init octeon_publish_devices(void)
>> 7ed18152 David Daney   2012-07-05  1059  {
>> 7ed18152 David Daney   2012-07-05  1060  	return of_platform_bus_probe(NULL, octeon_ids, NULL);
>> 7ed18152 David Daney   2012-07-05  1061  }
>> 8074d782 Aaro Koskinen 2016-08-23  1062  arch_initcall(octeon_publish_devices);
>> 7ed18152 David Daney   2012-07-05  1063
>> 512254ba David Daney   2009-09-16 @1064  MODULE_AUTHOR("David Daney <ddaney at caviumnetworks.com>");
>> 512254ba David Daney   2009-09-16  1065  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> 512254ba David Daney   2009-09-16  1066  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Platform driver for Octeon SOC");
>>
>> :::::: The code at line 1064 was first introduced by commit
>> :::::: 512254ba8383c5dd7eca6819d0da1ce2fe9ede47 MIPS: Octeon:  Move some platform device registration to its own file.
>>
>> :::::: TO: David Daney <ddaney at caviumnetworks.com>
>> :::::: CC: Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org>
>>
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