Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] scsi: Define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE only if necessary

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On Tue, 2025-05-27 at 13:54 +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 07:28:59AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2025-05-27 at 11:07 +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > > Define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE only if a structure is defined for it.
> > > 
> > > drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c:3735:26: error: use of undeclared
> > > identifier
> > > 'blogic_pci_tbl'
> > >  3735 | MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, blogic_pci_tbl);
> > 
> > Well, a) need to cc the scsi list
> 
> Sorry. I miss it.
> 
> > and b) how is this possible when MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() has an empty
> > definition if MODULE isn't defined (so the guard you move should be
> > over an empty statement)?
> 
> In the next patch:
> 
> [PATCH v3 4/6] modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
> 
> I remove this condition for the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE macro and it will
> be always defined.

Well, why?  If there's a reason for the table to always exist, wouldn't
the best fix then be to remove the module guards from the PCI table in
the buslogic ... they only really exist to prevent a defined but not
used error which it sounds like you're getting rid of?

Regards,

James






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