linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] USB patches for 3.15-rc1

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Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:28:58 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>, Loc Ho <lho@....com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] USB patches for 3.15-rc1

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:28:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > USB patches for 3.15-rc1
> >
> > Here's the big USB pull request for 3.15-rc1.
> 
> Hmm. I'm getting this when testing:
> 
>   warning: (AHCI_XGENE) selects PHY_XGENE which has unmet direct
> dependencies (HAS_IOMEM && OF && (ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST))
> 
> which looks like AHCI_XGENE doesn't have the proper dependency on OF
> (or alternatively PHY_XGENE has an incorrect dependemcy on OF).
> 
> According to google it looks like Fengguang reported this on
> kbuild-all, but nowhere else.
> 
> The actual build then succeeds. But the Kconfig warning is real and
> implies that something is seriously wrong wrt the dependencies for
> this thing.
> 
> It looks like the "select PHY_XGENE" came in through the libata
> update, but this USB update actually brought in the "config PHY_XGENE"
> and thus this error. Which makes me wonder how this all worked. Why
> does that "select PHY_XGENE" exist when apparently it's not needed?
> 
> Regardless, there's something broken somewhere.

Odd, I don't know what to do to fix this up "properly".

Loc Ho, this came in from your patch, any ideas?

thanks,

greg k-h
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