parse_options() in drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c calls uart_parse_earlycon
in drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c therefore selecting SERIAL_EARLYCON
should automatically select SERIAL_CORE, otherwise will result in symbol
not found error during linking if SERIAL_CORE is not configured as builtin
Fixes: 9aac5887595b ("tty/serial: add generic serial earlycon")
Signed-off-by: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@xxxxxxxxx>
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v2: I made an attempt to fix the commit log
v3: I made another attempt to fix the commit log and I also changed
select to depends according to Jiri's comment
v4: fixed another stupid error -- should be "depends on" not "depends"
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
v5: fix commit log - move Fixes line
drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
index 9409be982aa6..54586c1aba60 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ menu "Serial drivers"
config SERIAL_EARLYCON
bool
+ depends on SERIAL_CORE
help
Support for early consoles with the earlycon parameter. This enables
the console before standard serial driver is probed. The console is
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