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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2006-05-14 16:54:39 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2006-05-14 16:54:39 +0100
commit52239da1b06ff445bf71d35e04d8ce74e4c6fe7b (patch)
treeb33fe34d8a641600fbddb8dda7f4706c70026346 /drivers
parent[MTD] Clean up <linux/mtd/physmap.h> to fix modular build (diff)
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[MTD NAND] Modify check for modules registering NAND devices without ->owner
Make it work even with compilers which lack the wit to notice that THIS_MODULE is always non-NULL. Use #ifdef MODULE instead. It's only a temporary debugging check anyway. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
index 42cff0a2b93d..08dffb7a9389 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
@@ -2312,6 +2312,15 @@ static void nand_resume(struct mtd_info *mtd)
}
+/* module_text_address() isn't exported, and it's mostly a pointless
+ test if this is a module _anyway_ -- they'd have to try _really_ hard
+ to call us from in-kernel code if the core NAND support is modular. */
+#ifdef MODULE
+#define caller_is_module() (1)
+#else
+#define caller_is_module() module_text_address((unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0))
+#endif
+
/**
* nand_scan - [NAND Interface] Scan for the NAND device
* @mtd: MTD device structure
@@ -2330,12 +2339,8 @@ int nand_scan(struct mtd_info *mtd, int maxchips)
int i, nand_maf_id, nand_dev_id, busw, maf_id;
struct nand_chip *this = mtd->priv;
- /* module_text_address() isn't exported. But if _this_ is a module,
- it's a fairly safe bet that its caller is a module too... and
- that means the call to module_text_address() gets optimised out
- without having to resort to ifdefs */
- if (!mtd->owner && (THIS_MODULE ||
- module_text_address((unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0)))) {
+ /* Many callers got this wrong, so check for it for a while... */
+ if (!mtd->owner && caller_is_module()) {
printk(KERN_CRIT "nand_scan() called with NULL mtd->owner!\n");
BUG();
}