[Re: [PATCH] serial: fix Kconfig for Freescale 16550] On 13/12/2011 (Tue 12:53) Michael Neuling wrote: > In message <20111213005444.GA27190@xxxxxxx> you wrote: [...] > > Then you can't select SERIAL_8250 as a module at all, right? > > Correct, unless SERIAL_8250_FOL=n of course. > > > Perhaps you should allow SERIAL_8250_FSL to be a module as well here? > > So changing the bool to a tristate should be the correct option? Can > > you try that? > > Yep, that works also. New patch below. > > This should probably be aced by Paul to ensure he's cool with it being > a module now. This will still be broken, but in a different place and for different boards. [The legacy_serial.c won't link for 8250=m on FSL boards.] I think your original fix was closer to the right one. Let me expand on that. This thing isn't a real stand alone driver. It is an errata fix that is specific to Freescale boards, and only is relevant in fixing magic SysRQ functionality on the serial console. The Freescale boards are almost exclusively headless, with a serial console interface to u-boot as the only way to do initial interaction with the board at bootup. So having serial as a module on these boards is largely academic. (But if you want modular serial, you still can, and you dont need the errata fix for that.) So, with all that in mind, I think this is the right fix. I'll launch some build coverage against it, but it seems straightforward. Thanks for the report, and sorry for catching pmac in the fallout. Paul. --- From 675520f2d175bd71bf857b75a5a9b5a08ee0ee54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:18:15 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] serial: make FSL errata depend on 8250_CONSOLE, not just 8250 The recent commit "serial: add irq handler for Freescale 16550 errata" would allow Kconfig choices that had 8250 support as a module and yet still try and build in the errata fix non-modular, resulting in build failures for some non-embedded PPC targets. Since we hook in the errata fix from legacy_serial.c, which is built only for PPC_UDBG_16550, and since the errata is only really relevant for SysRQ on serial console, tighten up the dependencies to be exactly that. We'll get coverage on the relevant Freescale boards because the Kconfig for their CPU types all select the PPC_UDBG_16550 option, and the defconfigs also all select the 8250_CONSOLE option. Also, the 8250_CONSOLE option has a strict dependency on "SERIAL_8250=y" which resolves the reported problem for non Freescale targets. Reported-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig index aa46993..5c46e90 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ config SERIAL_8250_PNP config SERIAL_8250_FSL bool - depends on SERIAL_8250 && PPC + depends on SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE && PPC_UDBG_16550 default PPC config SERIAL_8250_HP300 -- 1.7.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
