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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/7] firmware: smccc: Add basic SMCCC v1.2 + ARCH_SOC_ID support
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:06:23AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:11 AM Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 08:57:56AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 09:34:10AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 9:07 AM Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:54:16PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:29 PM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > > > Applied to arm64 (for-next/smccc), thanks!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Arnd -- Sudeep's reply to you about the sysfs groups seemed reasonable to me,
> > > > > > > but please shout if you'd rather I dropped this in order to pursue an
> > > > > > > alternative approach.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I missed the reply earlier, thanks for pointing me to it again.
> > >
> > > D'oh, I took your silence as "no objections". Oh well!
> > >
> > > > > > I'm not entirely convinced, but don't revert it for now because of that,
> > > > > > I assume we can find a solution.
> > >
> > > Ok, cheers. It's on a separate branch so it's easy enough to drop if
> > > necessary (i.e. no reverts needed). Sudeep -- please send any extra patches
> > > on top of the branch.
> > >
> >
> > Indeed, it is also last patch in the series. However if Arnd is happy
> > with the sysfs names, we can move to generic code later without breaking
> > anything.
> >
> > We need not revert or drop it now. I will leave that to you or Arnd to
> > decide. Just that it may be too late to get acks for all the soc sysfs
> > drivers in time for v5.8
> >
> > I am fine if you want to drop the last patch.
>
> Ok, let's drop that patch then and make sure we do something that
> everyone is happy with later on. I'm already in favor of adding
> a more reliable soc_device instance based on this, but we need to
> be sure we don't screw up the contents of the attributes when we
> can't change them later.
>

Sure. Will, please drop the last patch in the series. I will rework
moving the custom attributes to the core.

> > > > >> drivers/firmware/smccc/smccc.c:14:13: warning: no previous prototype for function 'arm_smccc_version_init' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> > > > void __init arm_smccc_version_init(u32 version, enum arm_smccc_conduit conduit)
> > > > ^
> > > > drivers/firmware/smccc/smccc.c:14:1: note: declare 'static' if the
> > > > function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
> > > > void __init arm_smccc_version_init(u32 version, enum arm_smccc_conduit conduit)
> > >
> > > I saw that when I applied the patches, but since the function is called from
> > > another compilation unit (psci/psci.o), I just ignored it as we have loads
> > > of these already and it only screams if you build with W=1.
> > >
> >
> > /me confused. Do you need the fix for this warning or you are happy to ignore?
>
> I want a fix for that, as I hope we can eventually turn this warning on by
> default and stop playing whack-a-mole when they come up. Most of these
> warnings are harmless, but occasionally the prototypes don't match exactly
> and cause real bugs depending on the configuration, and ensuring both
> sides include a common header file is an easy way to make it work
> more reliably.
>

Agreed.

> Note that the warning should come up for either W=1 or C=1, and I also
> think that new code should generally be written sparse-clean and have
> no warnings with 'make C=1' as a rule.
>

Sure, I am facing issues with clang-8, it fails to build arm_smccc_1_1_invoke
which I think Nick was mentioning in some other thread. I will try latest
clang.

--
Regards,
Sudeep

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