From: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi-nor: intel-spi: Fix Kconfig dependency to LPC_ICH
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:09:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b73e4fc-c361-6bc8-55e6-567d203192e6@wedev4u.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3kdJiug1MaUaTzQxqayGuEGQvox-RX+NOtw0EFO7nkag@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Arnd,
Le 13/10/2017 à 13:15, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Cyrille Pitchen
> <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr> wrote:
>> Le 25/08/2017 à 10:12, Bin Meng a écrit :
>>> The Intel SPI-NOR driver is dependent on LPC_ICH to get the platform
>>> data. Select it in the Kconfig.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
>>
>> Applied to the spi-nor/next branch of l2-mtd
>
> This causes a build error now:
>
> warning: (SPI_INTEL_SPI_PLATFORM && ITCO_WDT) selects LPC_ICH which
> has unmet direct dependencies (HAS_IOMEM && PCI)
> drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c: In function 'lpc_ich_init_spi':
> drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:1137:3: error: implicit declaration of function
> 'pci_bus_write_config_byte'; did you mean 'pci_write_config_byte'?
> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>
> Generally speaking, using 'select' to force-enable another
> driver is a bad idea and causes endless problems, but if you
> insist on doing that, please make sure you get the right
> dependencies.
>
> Also, the 'depends on EXPERT' statement looks misplaced,
> enabling EXPERT should only be there to allow you to turn
> extra things *off*, not to hide device drivers.
>
> How about this:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig
> index 19bcb63a1ce7..b81d9b4dae7b 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/Kconfig
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ config SPI_INTEL_SPI
> tristate
>
> config SPI_INTEL_SPI_PCI
> - tristate "Intel PCH/PCU SPI flash PCI driver" if EXPERT
> + tristate "Intel PCH/PCU SPI flash PCI driver"
> depends on X86 && PCI
> select SPI_INTEL_SPI
> help
> @@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ config SPI_INTEL_SPI_PCI
> will be called intel-spi-pci.
>
> config SPI_INTEL_SPI_PLATFORM
> - tristate "Intel PCH/PCU SPI flash platform driver" if EXPERT
> - depends on X86
> + tristate "Intel PCH/PCU SPI flash platform driver"
> + depends on X86 && (PCI || COMPILE_TEST)
> select SPI_INTEL_SPI
> - select LPC_ICH
> + select LPC_ICH if PCI
> help
> This enables platform support for the Intel PCH/PCU SPI
> controller in master mode. This controller is present in modern
>
> Arnd
>
The patch has been removed from spi-nor/next and updated to 'Rejected'
in patchwork.
Thanks for your report.
Bin, you may have to submit another patch with the correct dependencies
or maybe adopt the "depends LPC_ICH" approach as suggested by Mika.
Best regards,
Cyrille
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-14 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-25 8:12 [PATCH] spi-nor: intel-spi: Fix Kconfig dependency to LPC_ICH Bin Meng
2017-08-25 10:40 ` Mika Westerberg
2017-08-25 12:11 ` Bin Meng
2017-08-27 14:44 ` Mika Westerberg
2017-08-25 12:12 ` Stefan Roese
2017-10-11 8:03 ` Cyrille Pitchen
2017-10-13 11:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-10-14 6:09 ` Cyrille Pitchen [this message]
2017-10-15 13:38 ` Bin Meng
2017-10-16 12:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-10-23 12:12 ` Mika Westerberg
2017-10-24 7:08 ` Bin Meng
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