[PATCH] powerpc: select MEMORY for FSL_IFC to not break existing .config files

Paul Gortmaker paul.gortmaker at windriver.com
Thu Feb 20 09:25:46 EST 2014


On 14-02-19 05:19 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 17:07 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> commit d2ae2e20fbdde5a65f3a5a153044ab1e5c53f7cc ("driver/memory:Move
>> Freescale IFC driver to a common driver") introduces this build
>> regression into the mpc85xx_defconfig:
>>
>>  drivers/built-in.o: In function `fsl_ifc_nand_remove':
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c:1147: undefined reference to `fsl_ifc_ctrl_dev'
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c:1147: undefined reference to `fsl_ifc_ctrl_dev'
>>  drivers/built-in.o: In function `fsl_ifc_nand_probe':
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c:1031: undefined reference to `fsl_ifc_ctrl_dev'
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c:1031: undefined reference to `fsl_ifc_ctrl_dev'
>>  drivers/built-in.o: In function `match_bank':
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c:1013: undefined reference to `convert_ifc_address'
>>  drivers/built-in.o: In function `fsl_ifc_nand_probe':
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c:1059: undefined reference to `fsl_ifc_ctrl_dev'
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c:1080: undefined reference to `fsl_ifc_ctrl_dev'
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c:1069: undefined reference to `fsl_ifc_ctrl_dev'
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_ifc_nand.c:1069: undefined reference to `fsl_ifc_ctrl_dev'
>>  make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>>
>> This happens because there is nothing to descend us into the
>> drivers/memory directory in the mpc85xx_defconfig.  It wasn't
>> selecting CONFIG_MEMORY.  So we never built drivers/memory/fsl_ifc.o
>> even with CONFIG_FSL_IFC=y, and so we have nothing to link against.
>>
>> In order to remain compatible with old config files and to avoid
>> such build failures, make CONFIG_FSL_IFC select CONFIG_MEMORY.
>> Also fix the whitespace issue (spaces vs. a tab) in the Kconfig.
>>
>> Cc: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar at freescale.com>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>
>> ---
>>
>> [This probably makes sense to go in via Greg's char-misc/char-misc-next
>>  (vs. powerpc-next) since that is where the regression was introduced.]
>>
>>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> index 957bf344c0f5..d2d8d8f50610 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> @@ -738,7 +738,8 @@ config FSL_LBC
>>  
>>  config FSL_IFC
>>  	bool
>> -        depends on FSL_SOC
>> +	depends on FSL_SOC
>> +	select MEMORY
> 
> Why do we still have FSL_IFC in arch/powerpc/Kconfig if the driver has
> been moved?  The NAND driver and other selectors of FSL_IFC can select
> MEMORY.

At the risk of a slightly larger footprint to the regression fix,
I'd agree that is a better overall solution.  I'll code that up.

Unless folks want the regression fix as-is, and then the move?

Paul.
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> 
> -Scott
> 
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