linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] fsi/sbefifo: Add dependency on OF

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Date:   Tue, 3 Jul 2018 08:40:27 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] fsi/sbefifo: Add dependency on OF_ADDRESS

On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 12:23:20AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 06:43 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > The driver calls of_platform_device_create() which is only available
> > if OF_ADDRESS is enabled. When building sparc64 images, this results
> > in
> > 
> > ERROR: "of_platform_device_create" [drivers/fsi/fsi-sbefifo.ko] undefined!
> > 
> > Fixes: 9f4a8a2d7f9d ("fsi/sbefifo: Add driver for the SBE FIFO")
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> 
> Thanks Guenter ! I'll include this into the fsi tree.
> 
> (I was wondering what that kbuild report on sparc64 was about... I must
> have misread the code, I didn't realize of_platform_device_create
> wasn't under CONFIG_OF alone).
> 
No worries; pretty much everyone using one of the affected functions
falls into that trap.

Guenter