linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtc: bd70528: fix driver dependencies

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Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:02:27 +0200
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To:     Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>
Cc:     mazziesaccount@...il.com, Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "yuehaibing@...wei.com" <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: bd70528: fix driver dependencies

On 12/08/2019 09:36:11+0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> With CONFIG_BD70528_WATCHDOG=m, a built-in rtc driver cannot call
> into the low-level functions that are part of the watchdog module:
> 
> drivers/rtc/rtc-bd70528.o: In function `bd70528_set_time':
> rtc-bd70528.c:(.text+0x22c): undefined reference to `bd70528_wdt_lock'
> rtc-bd70528.c:(.text+0x2a8): undefined reference to `bd70528_wdt_unlock'
> drivers/rtc/rtc-bd70528.o: In function `bd70528_set_rtc_based_timers':
> rtc-bd70528.c:(.text+0x50c): undefined reference to `bd70528_wdt_set'
> 
> Add a Kconfig dependency which forces RTC to be a module if watchdog is a
> module. If watchdog is not compiled at all the stub functions for watchdog
> control are used. compiling the RTC without watchdog is fine.
> 
> Fixes: 32a4a4ebf768 ("rtc: bd70528: Initial support for ROHM bd70528 RTC")
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>
> ---
>  Issue was found by kbuildbot from linux-next. Issue was addressed by
>  Arnd and Randy - but those solutions disallowed compiling the RTC
>  without watchdog. This patch is a result of discussion with Arnd and it
>  was created on top of Linus' tree (tag v5.3-rc4).
>  drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
Applied, thanks.

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Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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