linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH char-misc-linus] misc: mic: Fix randconfig build error

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Date:	Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:00:23 -0700
From:	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-linus] misc: mic: Fix randconfig build error

On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 21:41 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:32:30PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> > Fixes randconfig build error reported at
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/3/135 by ensuring that
> > the VOP driver selects VIRTIO.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig
> > index 2e4f3ba..89e5917 100644
> > --- a/drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig
> > @@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ config VOP
> >  	tristate "VOP Driver"
> >  	depends on 64BIT && PCI && X86 && VOP_BUS
> >  	select VHOST_RING
> > +	select VIRTIO
> 
> Shouldn't it depend on this instead?

Hi Greg,

The documentation for "config VIRTIO" states that "This option is
selected by any driver which implements the virtio bus". I verified that
this patch fixes the build for the randconfig which was failing earlier.

Thanks,
Sudeep Dutt