linux-kernel - Re: [Regression] depmod fails on kernel 6.17.1 rc1

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Message-ID: <3fe70726-80d6-a84a-4101-446fd8b49209@linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:35:58 +0200 (EET)
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>, 
    Alex Davis <alex47794@...il.com>, 
    Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
    Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
    Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, 
    Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>, 
    John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Regression] depmod fails on kernel 6.17.1 rc1

On Thu, 6 Nov 2025, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 06:15:57PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > So I'm seeing this with an allmodconfig build too:
> 			       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> > > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: 8250 -> 8250_base -> 8250
> > > depmod: ERROR: Found 2 modules in dependency cycles!
> > 
> > I'm surprised it took so long to people to start complaining.
> > 
> > So, some of those are modules? Can you share the
> > 
> > 	grep 8250 .config
> > 
> > part?
> 
> See above.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/87frc3sd8d.fsf@posteo.net/

I wonder if 8250_rsa.o can be put into 8250_base.o where most of its 
callers are anyway?

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 i.