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

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Message-ID: <6c40afc8-4ea7-aef7-73fd-8935e2bfe0dc@samsung.com>
Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2021 19:11:19 +0900
From:   Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] power: supply: max8997_charger: make EXTCON dependency
 unconditional

Hi Krzysztof,

On 3/9/21 1:11 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 17:02, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> It's still only in linux-next via extcon tree, so it seems Greg did
> not take it yet.
> 
> Chanwoo,
> You might need to follow up on this, so your pull request won't get lost.

I'm sorry. Because of my fault, the previous pull request was not merged to v5.12-rc1.
To fix this issue, I'll send the pull request for rc3 to Greg.

Best Regards,
Chanwoo Choi
Samsung Electronics