Hi Rob.
2016-01-21 23:09 GMT+09:00 Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:21 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thursday 21 January 2016 20:39:03 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>> 2016-01-14 7:33 GMT+09:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>:
>>> > The recently added uniphier 8250 port driver supports early console
>>> > probing, and it supports being built as a module, but the combination
>>> > of the two fails to link:
>>> >
>>> > ERROR: "early_serial8250_setup" [drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.ko] undefined!
>>> >
>>> > Given that earlycon support in a loadable module makes no sense,
>>> > making that code conditional on 'MODULE' is a correct solution.
>>> >
>>> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>> > Fixes: b8d20e06eaad ("serial: 8250_uniphier: add earlycon support")
>>> >
>>> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c
>>> > index bab6b3ae2540..1b7bd26555b7 100644
>>> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c
>>> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c
>>> > @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct uniphier8250_priv {
>>> > spinlock_t atomic_write_lock;
>>> > };
>>> >
>>> > -#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
>>> > +#if defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE) && !defined(MODULE)
>>> > static int __init uniphier_early_console_setup(struct earlycon_device *device,
>>> > const char *options)
>>> > {
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> If my patch (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8029331/) is accepted,
>>> this build error will be fixed as well. But I doubt it is accepted soon...
>>>
>>> So, I am OK with this workaround to fix "make allmodconfig".
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>
>> Good point. Adding the DT maintainers to Cc. Guys, any chance of you
>> picking up Masahiro's patch for 4.5?
>
> I will if you can update the commit log with the details here about it
> fixing an actual problem.
I did so in v2.
Thanks!
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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