Re: [PATCH] iio: accel: fxls8962af: fix i2c dependency

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 5:52 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 6:13 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > With CONFIG_SPI=y and CONFIG_I2C=m, building fxls8962af into vmlinux
> > causes a link error against the I2C module:
> >
> > aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/iio/accel/fxls8962af-core.o: in function `fxls8962af_fifo_flush':
> > fxls8962af-core.c:(.text+0x3a0): undefined reference to `i2c_verify_client'
> >
> > Work around it by adding a Kconfig dependency that forces the SPI driver
> > to be a loadable module whenever I2C is a module.
>
> ...
>
> >  config FXLS8962AF
> >         tristate
> > +       depends on I2C || !I2C # cannot be built-in for modular I2C
>
> Can you enlighten me how this will not be a no-op?

This part does nothing, it only causes a warning when FXLS8962AF
gets selected =y when I2C=m.

The important bit is the other hunk that adds the same dependency
to the FXLS8962AF_SPI symbol, which enforces that either I2C
is completely disabled, or treated as a dependency that prevents
the user from setting FXLS8962AF_SPI=y when that would cause
a link failure.

The effect is similar to a 'depends on SND_SOC_I2C_AND_SPI',
except we only need it on the SPI symbol here because the SPI
core cannot be in a module itself.

        Arnd