Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Oct 2014 09:00:37 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers: base: power: domain: Use 'pm_cpu_data' instead of 'cpu_data' for compiling break |
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On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 10:19:50PM +0800, Chen Gang wrote: > 'cpu_data' is too common to be already used by some architectures (e.g. > um, m32r, and mn10300), so need use 'pm_cpu_data' instead of, or cause > compiling break. The related error (with allmodconfig under um): > > CC drivers/base/platform.o > In file included from ./arch/x86/um/asm/processor.h:31:0, > from ./arch/um/include/asm/uaccess.h:16, > from ./arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h:13, > from include/linux/thread_info.h:54, > from include/asm-generic/current.h:4, > from arch/um/include/generated/asm/current.h:1, > from include/linux/mutex.h:13, > from include/linux/kernfs.h:13, > from include/linux/sysfs.h:15, > from include/linux/kobject.h:21, > from include/linux/device.h:17, > from include/linux/platform_device.h:14, > from drivers/base/platform.c:14: > ./arch/um/include/asm/processor-generic.h:107:19: error: expected identifier or '(' before '&' token > #define cpu_data (&boot_cpu_data) > ^ > include/linux/pm_domain.h:74:23: note: in expansion of macro 'cpu_data' > struct gpd_cpu_data *cpu_data; > ^ > > Also need notice about 80 columns boundary.
I don't object to this change at all, but it could be easier to solve this by fixing up 'cpu_data' to be named something a bit less "generic"? What does x86 use for this data type?
thanks,
greg k-h
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