netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ks8851: Fix mixed module/builtin build

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Date:   Sat, 16 Jan 2021 17:49:55 +0100
From:   Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ks8851: Fix mixed module/builtin build

On 1/15/21 10:36 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 6:24 PM Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> wrote:
>> On 15.01.2021 16:59, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 04:05:57PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>> On 1/15/21 4:00 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 02:42:39PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>> When either the SPI or PAR variant is compiled as module AND the other
>>>>>> variant is compiled as built-in, the following build error occurs:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_common.o: in function `ks8851_probe_common':
>>>>>> ks8851_common.c:(.text+0x1564): undefined reference to `__this_module'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fix this by including the ks8851_common.c in both ks8851_spi.c and
>>>>>> ks8851_par.c. The DEBUG macro is defined in ks8851_common.c, so it
>>>>>> does not have to be defined again.
>>>>>
>>>>> DEBUG should not be defined for production code. So i would remove it
>>>>> altogether.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is kconfig'ury you can use to make them both the same. But i'm
>>>>> not particularly good with it.
>>>>
>>>> We had discussion about this module/builtin topic in ks8851 before, so I was
>>>> hoping someone might provide a better suggestion.
>>>
>>> Try Arnd Bergmann. He is good with this sort of thing.
>>>
>> I'd say make ks8851_common.c a separate module. Then, if one of SPI / PAR
>> is built in, ks8851_common needs to be built in too. To do so you'd have
>> export all symbols from ks8851_common that you want to use in SPI /PAR.
> 
> Yes, that should work, as long the common module does not reference
> any symbols from the other two modules (it normally wouldn't), and all
> globals in the common one are exported.
> 
> You can also link everything into a single module, but then you have
> to deal with registering two device_driver structures from a single
> init function, which would undo some of cleanup.

Maybe just passing THIS_MODULE around is even better way to do it, I 
CCed you on the V2, [PATCH net-next V2] net: ks8851: Fix mixed 
module/builtin build .