On Thursday 29 January 2015 11:41:58 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:47:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The renesas usbhs driver calls extcon_get_edev_by_phandle(), which > > is defined in drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c, and that can be a > > loadable module. If the extcon-class support is disabled, usbhs > > will work correctly for all devices that do not need extcon. > > > > However, if extcon-class is a loadable module, and usbhs is > > built-in, the kernel fails to link. In order to solve that, > > we need a Kconfig dependency that allows extcon to be disabled > > but does not allow usbhs built-in if extcon is a module. > > > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/Kconfig > > index de83b9d0cd5c..0ea9040b9f10 100644 > > --- a/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/Kconfig > > +++ b/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/Kconfig > > @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ config USB_RENESAS_USBHS > > tristate 'Renesas USBHS controller' > > depends on USB_GADGET > > depends on ARCH_SHMOBILE || SUPERH || COMPILE_TEST > > + depends on EXTCON || !EXTCON # for module build if extcon is > > The comment doesn't make much sense on its own (and when I read it before > reading the above description, it was down right confusing.) Maybe a > longer comment would be a good idea? > Sorry for the late reply. We have a lot of these dependencies, and I never know what a particular maintainer expects. Let me try to come up with something better. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
