linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: always build usb/common/ targets; fixes extcon-axp288 build error

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Message-ID: <e71a77ab-2ee8-3ffc-1fc5-3e500921f0e7@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:48:34 +0200
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
        MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: always build usb/common/ targets; fixes
 extcon-axp288 build error

Hi,

On 24-04-18 09:42, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> On 2018년 04월 17일 18:01, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 17-04-18 07:14, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>>>
>>> The extcon-axp288 driver selects USB_ROLE_SWITCH, but the USB
>>> Makefile does not currently build drivers/usb/common/ (where
>>> USB_ROLE_SWITCH code is) unless USB_COMMON is set, so modify
>>> the USB Makefile to always descend into drivers/usb/common/
>>> to build its configured targets.
>>>
>>> Fixes these build errors:
>>>
>>> ERROR: "usb_role_switch_get" [drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "usb_role_switch_set_role" [drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "usb_role_switch_get_role" [drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "usb_role_switch_put" [drivers/extcon/extcon-axp288.ko] undefined!
>>>
>>> An alternative patch would be to select USB_COMMON in the EXTCON_AXP288
>>> driver Kconfig entry, but this would build more code in
>>> drivers/usb/common/ than is necessary.
>>
>> Ah, that variant of fixing this got posted yesterday and I acked that,
>> but I agree that this version is better.
>>
>> Greg, what is your take on this fix?
>>
>> Chanwoo Choi, please wait with merging the fix from yesterday until
>> we've a decision which fix to use.
> 
> OK. I'll not send pull request for fix patches until deciding them.

Greg has picked up another patch to fix this, so you can drop this.

Regards,

Hans