Re: Unable to find module location

[Deepak R Varma <drv@mailo.com>]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 01:40:48AM -0700, Sumitra Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to recopmile the driver using the command "make menuconfig".
> This opens the text-based UI and I wanted to locate and make NVEC_PAZ00
> as a module whose location is as follows:
> 
>   │                                                                                                                  │
>   │ Symbol: NVEC_PAZ00 [=n]                                                                                          │
>   │ Type  : tristate                                                                                                 │
>   │ Defined at drivers/staging/nvec/Kconfig:45                                                                       │
>   │   Prompt: Support for OEM specific functions on Compal PAZ00 based devices                                       │
>   │   Depends on: STAGING [=y] && MFD_NVEC [=n] && LEDS_CLASS [=y]                                                   │
>   │   Location:                                                                                                      │
>   │     -> Device Drivers                                                                                            │
>   │ (3)   -> Staging drivers (STAGING [=y])                                                                          │
>   │         -> NV Tegra Embedded Controller SMBus Interface (MFD_NVEC [=n])                                          │
>   │           -> Support for OEM specific functions on Compal PAZ00 based devices (NVEC_PAZ00 [=n])
> 
>   But under "Staging drivers" there is no such thing called "NV Tegra Embedded Controller SMBus Interface (MFD_NVEC [=n])".
> 
>   --- Staging drivers                                                                       │ │
>   │ │                    < >   RealTek RTL8192U Wireless LAN NIC driver                                            │ │
>   │ │                    < >   Support for rtllib wireless devices                                                 │ │
>   │ │                    < >   Realtek PCI-E Card Reader RTS5208/5288 support                                      │ │
>   │ │                    < >   Silicon Motion SM750 framebuffer support                                            │ │
>   │ │                    [*]   Media staging drivers  ----                                                         │ │
>   │ │                    < >   GCT GDM724x LTE support                                                             │ │
>   │ │                    < >   Support for small TFT LCD display modules  ----                                     │ │
>   │ │                    < >   KeyStream KS7010 SDIO support                                                       │ │
>   │ │                    <M>   Pi433 - a 433MHz radio module for Raspberry Pi                                      │ │
>   │ │                    < >   Fieldbus Device Support  ----                                                       │ │
>   │ │                    <M>   QLogic QLGE 10Gb Ethernet Driver Support                                            │ │
>   │ │                    [*]   VME bridge support  --->
>   
> 
>   Kindly guide me through this.

Hi Sumitra,
You will need to use a arch specific config file and cross compile to configure
and build this driver module.
I just tried it with arch/arm64/configs/defconfig file and the
aarch64-linux-gnu- compiler for my host system and was able to configure the
driver for build.

Deepak.



> 
>   Regards,
>   
>   Sumitra
> 
>