On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 07:26:27 +0300, Leon Romanovsky said:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:20:32PM +0530, bkkarthik wrote:
> > These were only intended for a clean-up job, the idea of this function came 
> > from how PCI handles procfs.
> > Maybe those should be changed?
>
> Probably, the CONFIG_PROC_FS around pci_proc_*() is not needed too.

Will that actually build correctly if it's an embedded system or something 
build with
CONFIG_PROC_FS=n?  I'd expect that to die a horrid death while linking vmlinx 
due
to stuff inside that #ifdef calling symbols only present with PROC_FS=m/y.

In general, inline ifdef's are frowned upon, so if you come across one in the 
kernel
source, that's probably a *big* hint that either (a) refactoring the code to 
eliminate
an inline ifdef was just too ugly to be allowed to live or (b) you *have* to 
put a guard
around it because you're guaranteed a build failure otherwise.

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