[U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: make get_partition_info() always available to disk.c

[Stephen Warren]

On 09/21/2012 04:05 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> 
> Now that get_device_and_partition() always calls get_partition_info()
> when disk.c is compiled, we must always compile the function, rather
> than ifdef it away.
> 
> Technically, this change is required before Rob's "disk/part: introduce
> get_device_and_partition" patch. However, at least when the compiler
> optimizer is turned on, it isn't required before then in practice,
> since get_device_and_partition() calls get_dev(), which is stubbed out
> in disk.c under exactly the same conditions that get_partition_info()
> is not compiled, and hence the compiler never generates code for the
> call to the missing function. However, in my later patch "disk:
> get_device_and_partition() "auto" partition and cleanup", the optimizer
> doesn't succeed at this, and may attempt to reference the undefined
> function.

Uggh. Even this isn't quite enough; e.g. CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION can be
enabled but not the defines that part_dos.c uses to ifdef out
compilation of get_partition_info_dos(). That seems illegal to me, but
anyway. I'll send another one once MAKEALL -a arm actually gets all the
way to the end...