drivers/tty: ehv_bytechan fails to build as a module

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Sun Jan 5 06:15:37 EST 2014


On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:03:10PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> ehv_bytechan is marked tristate but fails to build as a module:
> 
> drivers/tty/ehv_bytechan.c:363:1: error: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘console_initcall’ [-Werror=implicit-int]
> 
> It doesn't make much sense for a console driver to be built as
> a module, so change it to a bool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> 

Any comments on this patch ? The problem still causes powerpc:allmodconfig to
fail.

Guenter

> ---
> 
> 
> Index: b/drivers/tty/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- a/drivers/tty/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/tty/Kconfig
> @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ config TRACE_SINK
>  	  "Trace data router for MIPI P1149.7 cJTAG standard".
>  
>  config PPC_EPAPR_HV_BYTECHAN
> -	tristate "ePAPR hypervisor byte channel driver"
> +	bool "ePAPR hypervisor byte channel driver"
>  	depends on PPC
>  	select EPAPR_PARAVIRT
>  	help


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