linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 10 (mtd/spi-nor/)

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Message-ID: <befa858c-cac9-521b-93ea-eb5722738998@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:20:47 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 10 (mtd/spi-nor/)

On 3/10/20 1:36 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 3/10/20 10:14 AM, John Garry wrote:
>> +
>>
>> On 10/03/2020 14:37, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On 3/10/20 2:19 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Changes since 20200306:
>>>>
>>>> Removed tree: nfc-next (abanboned)
>>>
>>>                                doned
>>>
>>>
>>> on i386:
>>>
>>> WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for MTD_SPI_NOR
>>
>> Uh, so kbuild honors a "select" of a config option which has unmet dependencies:
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst?h=v5.6-rc5#n143
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> So this looks introduced by:
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/spi/Kconfig?h=next-20200310&id=e14572c52546c16e159c4c1814984843a119e823
>>
>>>    Depends on [m]: MTD [=m] && SPI_MASTER [=y] >    Selected by [y]:
>>>    - SPI_HISI_SFC_V3XX [=y] && SPI [=y] && SPI_MASTER [=y] && (ARM64 && ACPI [=y] || COMPILE_TEST [=y]) && HAS_IOMEM [=y]
> 
> Would it be acceptable to move the Kconfig entry for this:
> 
> config SPI_HISI_SFC_V3XX
> 	tristate "HiSilicon SPI-NOR Flash Controller for Hi16XX chipsets"
> 	depends on (ARM64 && ACPI) || COMPILE_TEST
> 	depends on HAS_IOMEM
> 	select MTD_SPI_NOR
> 
> into drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig, say after this one:
> 
> config SPI_HISI_SFC
> 	tristate "Hisilicon FMC SPI-NOR Flash Controller(SFC)"
> 	depends on ARCH_HISI || COMPILE_TEST
> 	depends on HAS_IOMEM
> 
> and drop the "select MTD_SPI_NOR" because when it's in drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig,
> it will depend on MTD_SPI_NOR.
> 

These changes to 2 Kconfig files does fix the kconfig warning and build errors.
I don't know if it's acceptable, or if the source file also wants to be
relocated.  (I almost said "needs to be relocated," but it builds fine without
that change.)

> 
>>> ERROR: "spi_nor_scan" [drivers/mtd/spi-nor/intel-spi.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "spi_nor_scan" [drivers/mtd/spi-nor/mtk-quadspi.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "spi_nor_scan" [drivers/mtd/spi-nor/hisi-sfc.ko] undefined!
>>> ERROR: "spi_nor_scan" [drivers/mtd/spi-nor/aspeed-smc.ko] undefined!


-- 
~Randy