From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@gmail.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.16-rc3
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 19:07:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09df5c2a-8e03-8afd-ffe3-628dcd326497@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211129015909.GA921717@roeck-us.net>
On 11/28/21 17:59, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 02:21:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> So rc3 is usually a bit larger than rc2 just because people had some
>> time to start finding things.
>>
>> So too this time, although it's not like this is a particularly big
>> rc3. Possibly partly due to the past week having been Thanksgiving
>> week here in the US. But the size is well within the normal range, so
>> if that's a factor, it's not been a big one.
>>
>> The diff for rc3 is mostly drivers, although part of that is just
>> because of the removal of a left-over MIPS Netlogic driver which makes
>> the stats look a bit wonky, and is over a third of the whole diff just
>> in itself.
>>
>> If you ignore that part, the statistics look a bit more normal, but
>> drivers still dominate (network drivers, sound and gpu are the big
>> ones, but there is noise all over). Other than that there's once again
>> a fair amount of selftest (mostly networking), along with core
>> networking, some arch updates - the bulk of it from a single arm64
>> uaccess patch, although that's mostly because it's all pretty small -
>> and random other changes.
>>
>> Full shortlog below.
>>
>> Please test,
>>
>
> Build results:
> total: 153 pass: 152 fail: 1
> Failed builds:
> mips:allmodconfig
> Qemu test results:
> total: 482 pass: 482 fail: 0
>
> Building mips:allmodconfig ... failed
> --------------
> Error log:
> ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.o
> ERROR: modpost: "mips_cm_unlock_other" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "mips_cpc_base" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "mips_cm_lock_other" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "mips_cm_is64" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: modpost: "mips_gcr_base" [drivers/pci/controller/pcie-mt7621.ko] undefined!
>
> There is still no fix for the mips:allmodconfig build problem as far
> as I can see. It is a bit odd, because the fix would be as simple as
>
> config PCIE_MT7621
> - tristate "MediaTek MT7621 PCIe Controller"
> - depends on (RALINK && SOC_MT7621) || (MIPS && COMPILE_TEST)
> + bool "MediaTek MT7621 PCIe Controller"
> + depends on SOC_MT7621 || (MIPS && COMPILE_TEST)
> select PHY_MT7621_PCI
> default SOC_MT7621
> help
>
> Context: tristate doesn't make sense here because both RALINK and
> SOC_MT7621 are bool. Also, RALINK is redundant because SOC_MT7621
> already depends on it. The compile failure is due to missing exported
> symbols, and it is only seen if PCIE_MT7621=m - which is only possible
> if COMPILE_TEST=y. In other words, the dependencies above are set such
> that test builds, and only test builds, fail.
>
> The problem was introduced with commit 2bdd5238e756 ("PCI: mt7621:
> Add MediaTek MT7621 PCIe host controller driver"). Copying some of
> those responsible to see if we can expect a solution sometime soon.
I sent a patch for this a couple of weeks ago and Sergio replied to it
here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/CAMhs-H8TA0S23FjSRKGKeKAWWdUxET6YnivLQoFuy_fSVJOPXw@mail.gmail.com/
saying that is a different patch out there but that it had not
been reviewed yet.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-29 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-28 22:21 Linux 5.16-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2021-11-29 1:59 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-11-29 3:07 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2021-11-29 4:17 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-11-29 11:02 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2021-11-29 12:23 ` Sergio Paracuellos
2021-11-29 12:18 ` Sergio Paracuellos
2021-11-29 15:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-12-01 20:38 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-12-01 20:50 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-12-01 21:38 ` Sergio Paracuellos
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