[U-Boot] [U-Boot, V2] disk: make get_partition_info() always available to disk.c

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Sep 26 01:16:55 CEST 2012


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:46:54PM -0000, 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.
> 
> The implementation must be conditional based on CONFIG_CMD_* etc., since
> that's what e.g. part_dos.c uses to ifdef out get_partition_info_dos();
> CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION can be enabled even without those commands being
> enabled.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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