Re: [Powertop] [PATCH] Make libpci dependency optional

Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:30:33 -0700
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.powertop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/18/2012 7:53 AM, Igor Zhbanov wrote:
> +#ifndef DISABLE_PCI
>  	end_pci_access();
> +#endif /* !DISABLE_PCI */

this is the wrong way to do this.
the right way (similar to how the kernel does this, and earlier patches
to this list for this exact same thing did it), is to provide a dummy
end_pci_access().
randomly sprinking #ifdef's all over the code is a really bad idea.