linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: fix earlycon dependency

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Date:   Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:00:38 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Tong Zhang <ztong0001@...il.com>
Cc:     jirislaby@...nel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: fix earlycon dependency

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:50:59PM -0400, Tong Zhang wrote:
> parse_options() in drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c calls
> uart_parse_earlycon() in drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> therefore selecting SERIAL_EARLYCON should automatically
> select SERIAL_CORE, otherwise will result in symbol not
> found error during linking if SERIAL_CORE is not configured
> as builtin

We can handle lines 72 characters long :)

> 
> Signed-off-by: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@...il.com>

What broke to cause this to be needed?

Can you provide a "Fixes:" tag for this?

> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> index 8a0352eb337c..42e844314cbb 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ menu "Serial drivers"
>  
>  config SERIAL_EARLYCON
>  	bool
> +	select SERIAL_CORE

Are you _sure_ about this?  This feels odd...

thanks,

greg k-h