Re: [PATCH 5/6] mips: drop GENERIC_IOMAP wrapper

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025, at 18:30, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 10:13:35PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> Thanks for the report, I missed that the generic ioport_map() function
>> is missing the PCI_IOBASE macro, we should probably remove that from
>> the asm-generic/io.h header and require architectures to define it
>> themselves, since the NULL fallback is pretty much always wrong.
>> 
>> There is also a type mismatch between the MIPS
>> PCI_IOBASE/mips_io_port_base and the one that asm-generic/io.h
>> expects, so I had to add a couple of extra typecasts, which
>> makes it rather ugly, but the change below seems to work.
>
> Thanks, that does make the -Wnull-pointer-arithmetic warnings disappear.
> That build still fails in next-20250319 (which includes that change) at
> the end with:
>
>   $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=mips CROSS_COMPILE=mips-linux- mrproper 
> malta_defconfig all
>   ERROR: modpost: "pci_iounmap" 
> [drivers/net/wireless/intel/ipw2x00/ipw2100.ko] undefined!
>
> which appears related to this original change.

Right, I had seen and fixed a problem like this in an earlier
version, but forgot the EXPORT_SYMBOL on the legacy host version.

Fixed it better now.

      Arnd