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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next] usb: add usb.h stubs for CONFIG_USB not enabled
On 05/19/2012 07:30 AM, Alan Stern wrote:

> On Fri, 18 May 2012, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
>>
>> Add stubs for some usb core functions when CONFIG_USB
>> is not enabled. This fixes these comedi build errors:
>>
>> ERROR: "usb_deregister" [drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.ko] undefined!
>> ERROR: "usb_register_driver" [drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.ko] undefined!
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
>> ---
>> I am only adding the stubs that are needed for comedi to build.
>> I expect that more stubs will be needed as more build errors are
>> found. It seems to me that linux/usb.h might need more (major)
>> moving of lines to support more stubs in the future.
>
> This doesn't seem like the right thing to do. If a driver needs to
> register with the USB core then that driver should depend on
> CONFIG_USB.
>
> On the other hand, if the driver is capable of being built without USB
> support then it should use the necessary preprocessor tests to protect
> calls to any USB routines.


Yeah, my first patch (not on linux-usb list) to staging/comedi/drivers.c
just surrounded the usb helper functions with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_USB).
I'm fine with that patch, but Greg said that he wanted stubs...


--
~Randy


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