linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] power: supply: max8997_charger: make EXTCON dependency unconditional

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3xEw9yiVY-dDmQEKTSPSXaZJEhXEQ2M=7ZoUA8_P5Qzg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Mar 2021 17:02:38 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc:     Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        Timon Baetz <timon.baetz@...tonmail.com>,
        Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] power: supply: max8997_charger: make EXTCON dependency unconditional

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:33 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On 08/03/2021 16:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> >
> > Some of the extcon interfaces have a fallback implementation that can
> > be used when EXTCON is disabled, but some others do not, causing a
> > build failure:
> >
> > drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c:261:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'devm_extcon_register_notifier_all' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >                 ret = devm_extcon_register_notifier_all(&pdev->dev, charger->edev,
> >                       ^
> > drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c:261:9: note: did you mean 'devm_extcon_register_notifier'?
> > include/linux/extcon.h:263:19: note: 'devm_extcon_register_notifier' declared here
> > static inline int devm_extcon_register_notifier(struct device *dev,
> >
> > I assume there is no reason to actually build this driver without extcon
> > support, so a hard dependency is the easiest fix. Alternatively the
> > header file could be extended to provide additional inline stubs.
>
> Hi Arnd,
>
> Thanks for the patch but I think I got it covered with:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210215100610.19911-2-cw00.choi@samsung.com/
> (sent via extcon tree).
>
> Did you experience a new/different issue?

The patch should be fine and address the problem, I just didn't see it was
already fixed in linux-next as I'm still testing on mainline (rc2 at
the moment).

I assume the fix will make it into a future -rc then.

      Arnd