Hi,
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:06:52PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> When the base sun4i DRM driver is built-in but the back-end is
> a loadable module, we run into a link error:
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.o: In function `sun4i_drv_probe':
> sun4i_drv.c:(.text+0x60c): undefined reference to `sun4i_frontend_of_table'
>
> The dependency is a bit tricky, the best workaround I have come up
> with is to use a Makefile hack to to interpret both
> CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND=m and CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND=y
> as a directive to build the front-end the same way as the main module.
>
> Fixes: dd0421f47505 ("drm/sun4i: Add a driver for the display frontend")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile
> index 582607c0c488..db14e023256b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/Makefile
> @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I) += sun4i-tcon.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I) += sun4i_tv.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I) += sun6i_drc.o
>
> -obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND) += sun4i-backend.o sun4i-frontend.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND) += sun4i-backend.o
> +ifdef CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND
> +obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_SUN4I) += sun4i-frontend.o
> +endif
Can we just create a Kconfig symbol, selected by DRM_SUN4I_BACKEND,
and we would export the symbol?
Thanks!
Maxime
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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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