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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: os_dep: Hoist vmalloc.h include into
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To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
        Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Date:   Tue, 10 Aug 2021 20:28:11 -0500
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On 8/10/21 7:55 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> After commit 71f09c5ae9d2 ("staging: r8188eu: Remove wrapper around
> vfree"), the driver fails to build on Hexagon due to an implicit
> declaration in several different files:
> 
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c:129:3: error: implicit
> declaration of function 'vfree'
> [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>                  vfree(pmlmepriv->free_bss_buf);
>                  ^
> 1 error generated.
> 
> Previously, vfree() was only called in osdep_service.c, which includes
> vmalloc.h for vmalloc() and vfree(). Now, the driver relies on vfree()
> getting implicitly included from another file.
> 
> Hoist the vmalloc.h include from osdep_service.c to osdep_service.h so
> that the driver continues to build fine on all architectures.
> 
> Fixes: 71f09c5ae9d2 ("staging: r8188eu: Remove wrapper around vfree")
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/osdep_service.h | 1 +
>   drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c  | 1 -
>   2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/osdep_service.h b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/osdep_service.h
> index 7e002009f9a0..0d1419af8274 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/osdep_service.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/osdep_service.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>   #include <linux/interrupt.h>	/*  for struct tasklet_struct */
>   #include <linux/ip.h>
>   #include <linux/kthread.h>
> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>   
>   #include <linux/usb.h>
>   #include <linux/usb/ch9.h>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c
> index 910da0f0004a..9ea4e1a7c45f 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c
> @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
>   #include "../include/osdep_service.h"
>   #include "../include/drv_types.h"
>   #include "../include/recv_osdep.h"
> -#include "../include/linux/vmalloc.h"
>   #include "../include/rtw_ioctl_set.h"
>   
>   /*
> 
> base-commit: ae7471cae00a432d1c9692452b1b9175a8f3c1b3
> 

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

For some reason this header is pulled in on x86_64. What CPU does Hexagon use?

Larry