Just for clarification: The build error was fixed by another patch (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8082931/) So, this one is unneeded. 2016-01-22 1:50 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html