On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 13:45, Ralf Baechle [off-list ref] wrote:

On architectures that don't define PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE, the Comedi driver turns
into tragedy:

 CC [M]  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c: In function ‘comedi_buf_alloc’:
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:505:41: error: ‘PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:505:41: note: each undeclared identifier is rep orted only once for each function it appears in
make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] Error 1

Restrict the driver to only those architectures that define PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE.

PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE is a kludge - some system architectures such as SGI IP27
are even uable to offer uncached operation - at least in the way an unwitting
driver might assume.  I haven't looked in details how the driver is using
the area vmaped with PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE but maybe doing it XFS-style using
cached memory and the flush_kernel_vmap_range / invalidate_kernel_vmap_range
APIs in conjunction with the DMA API is a practical alternative.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <redacted>

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

If only to get m68k/allmodconfig going again (hmm, there's another
staging driver
preventing a green light).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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