[PATCH v2 6/7] remoteproc: stm32: Avoid directly taking address of auto_boot

Andrew Davis afd at ti.com
Fri Oct 10 17:37:06 PDT 2025


On 10/10/25 7:24 AM, Peng Fan wrote:
> The rproc->auto_boot field is going to be defined as a bit-field, which

One of the pitfalls of bit-fields :)

I'm assuming if you drop the next patch you will drop this patch too.

Andrew

> makes it illegal to take its address in C.
> 
> To avoid build issue, a temporary boolean variable is introduced in
> stm32_rproc_probe() to hold the parsed value from the device tree.
> The value is then assigned to rproc->auto_boot after parsing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> ---
>   drivers/remoteproc/stm32_rproc.c | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/stm32_rproc.c b/drivers/remoteproc/stm32_rproc.c
> index 431648607d53ae58a9a556d53f17b1bf924bcd80..b28907c240125cdcf73867e2704eaa974d5e1401 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/stm32_rproc.c
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/stm32_rproc.c
> @@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ static int stm32_rproc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	const char *fw_name;
>   	struct rproc *rproc;
>   	unsigned int state;
> +	bool auto_boot;
>   	int ret;
>   
>   	ret = dma_coerce_mask_and_coherent(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
> @@ -857,10 +858,12 @@ static int stm32_rproc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   
>   	rproc_coredump_set_elf_info(rproc, ELFCLASS32, EM_NONE);
>   
> -	ret = stm32_rproc_parse_dt(pdev, ddata, &rproc->auto_boot);
> +	ret = stm32_rproc_parse_dt(pdev, ddata, &auto_boot);
>   	if (ret)
>   		goto free_rproc;
>   
> +	rproc->auto_boot = auto_boot;
> +
>   	ret = stm32_rproc_of_memory_translations(pdev, ddata);
>   	if (ret)
>   		goto free_rproc;
> 




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