On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:21:15AM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 02:15:20PM +0530, Calvin Johnson wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:17:19PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:49:59AM +0530, Calvin Johnson wrote: > > > > Refactor of_phy_find_device() to use fwnode_phy_find_device(). > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Calvin Johnson <calvin.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > This patch series is provoking depmod dependency cycles for me and > > > it bisected down to this patch (although I think later patches in > > > the series add further cycles). > > > > > > The problems emerge when running modules_install either directly or > > > indirectly via packaging rules such as bindeb-pkg. > > > > > > ~~~ > > > make -j16 INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$PWD/modules modules_install > > > ... > > > INSTALL sound/usb/misc/snd-ua101.ko > > > INSTALL sound/usb/snd-usb-audio.ko > > > INSTALL sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko > > > INSTALL sound/xen/snd_xen_front.ko > > > DEPMOD 5.12.0-rc3-00009-g1fda33bf463d > > > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fwnode_mdio -> of_mdio -> fwnode_mdio > > > depmod: ERROR: Found 2 modules in dependency cycles! > > > ~~~ > > > > > > Kconfig can be found here: > > > https://gist.github.com/daniel-thompson/6a7d224f3d3950ffa3f63f979b636474 > > > > > > This Kconfig file is for a highly modular kernel derived from the Debian > > > 5.10 arm64 kernel config. I was not able to reproduce using the defconfig > > > kernel for arm64. > > > > > Thanks for catching this. I'm able to reproduce the issue and will fix it. > > > > By the way, is there any integration tool/mechanism out there to which I can > > submit the patch series and build for various possible configs like these? > > Not sure which autotester would be most likely to pick this up. > > This issue is slightly unusual because it broke the install rather then > the build... and lots of people (including me) primarily run build > tests ;-) . > > Anyhow, I guess the best way to pick up module problems like this is > going to be an `allmodconfig` build followed up with `rm -rf modtest; > make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$PWD/modtest`. Thanks Daniel for the info. To resolve this issue, I need to add more fwnode MDIO functions. I'm working on these. Meanwhile, will separately send out two patches that got Reviewed-by tag. Regards Calvin