From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: "Álvaro Fernández Rojas" <noltari@gmail.com>,
"Vignesh Raghavendra" <vigneshr@ti.com>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
"Miquel Raynal" <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
"open list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
"Jonas Gorski" <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: parsers: bcm63xx: Do not make it modular
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:14:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201011141447.GA9215@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200929172726.30469-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:27:21AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> With commit 91e81150d388 ("mtd: parsers: bcm63xx: simplify CFE
> detection"), we generate a reference to fw_arg3 which is the fourth
> firmware/command line argument on MIPS platforms. That symbol is not
> exported and would cause a linking failure.
>
> The parser is typically necessary to boot a BCM63xx-based system anyway
> so having it be part of the kernel image makes sense, therefore make it
> 'bool' instead of 'tristate'.
>
> Fixes: 91e81150d388 ("mtd: parsers: bcm63xx: simplify CFE detection")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
What happened with this patch ? The build failure is still seen in mainline
and in next-20201009.
Guenter
> ---
> drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig
> index f98363c9b363..e72354322f62 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/Kconfig
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ config MTD_BCM47XX_PARTS
> boards.
>
> config MTD_BCM63XX_PARTS
> - tristate "BCM63XX CFE partitioning parser"
> + bool "BCM63XX CFE partitioning parser"
> depends on BCM63XX || BMIPS_GENERIC || COMPILE_TEST
> select CRC32
> select MTD_PARSER_IMAGETAG
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-08 9:40 [PATCH 0/2] mtd: parsers: bcm63xx: simplify CFE detection Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-08 9:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: BCM63xx: add helper function to detect CFE Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-08 9:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd: parsers: bcm63xx: simplify CFE detection Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-08 16:06 ` [PATCH v2] " Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-11 7:55 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-06-11 15:16 ` Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-11 15:42 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-06-11 15:46 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-06-11 16:14 ` Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-12 7:02 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-06-12 7:30 ` Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-12 7:33 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-06-12 7:37 ` Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-12 7:35 ` [PATCH v3] " Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-15 8:54 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-06-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v4] " Álvaro Fernández Rojas
2020-06-15 16:30 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-06-15 17:38 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-08-14 8:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-09-22 3:18 ` Naresh Kamboju
2020-09-22 3:26 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-09-28 14:16 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-09-28 19:35 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-09-29 17:27 ` [PATCH] mtd: parsers: bcm63xx: Do not make it modular Florian Fainelli
2020-10-02 7:15 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-10-11 14:14 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2020-10-12 7:04 ` Miquel Raynal
2020-10-12 13:24 ` Guenter Roeck
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