On 10 May 2018 at 12:41, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7 May 2018 at 17:44, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Although commit 882164a4a928 ("ssb: Prevent build of PCI host features in
>> module") appeared to be harmless, it leads to complete failure of drivers
>> b43. and b43legacy, and likely affects b44 as well. The problem is that
>> CONFIG_SSB_PCIHOST is undefined, which prevents the compilation of the code
>> that controls the PCI cores of the device. See
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1572349 for details.
>>
>> As the underlying errors ("pcibios_enable_device" undefined, and
>> "register_pci_controller" undefined) do not appear on the architectures that
>> I have tested (x86_64, x86, and ppc), I suspect something in the
>> arch-specific code for your setup (MIPS?). As I have no idea on how to fix
>> that problem, would the following patch work for you?
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/ssb/Kconfig b/drivers/ssb/Kconfig
>> index 9371651d8017..3743533c8057 100644
>> --- a/drivers/ssb/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/ssb/Kconfig
>> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ config SSB_SERIAL
>>
>> config SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE_POSSIBLE
>> bool
>> - depends on SSB_PCIHOST && SSB = y
>> + depends on SSB_PCIHOST && (SSB = y || !MIPS)
>> default y
>>
>> config SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE
>
> I strongly suggest we take a step back, slow down a bit and look at
> the original problem.
>
> In driver_pcicore.c there is MIPS specific code. It's protected using
> #ifdef CONFIG_SSB_PCICORE_HOSTMODE
> (...)
> #endif
>
> If anyone has ever seen
> ERROR: "pcibios_enable_device" [drivers/ssb/ssb.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "register_pci_controller" [drivers/ssb/ssb.ko] undefined!
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:92: __modpost] Error 1
> it means he managed to get CONFIG_SSB_PCICORE_HOSTMODE set on non-MIPS system.
>
> We should rather answer how did that happen and fix it.
>
> SSB_PCICORE_HOSTMODE depends on SSB_DRIVER_MIPS
> SSB_DRIVER_MIPS depends on MIPS
>
> How is that possible to set SSB_PCICORE_HOSTMODE with non-MIPS config?
> Is there some mistake in Kconfig I can't see?
I think SSB = y should be added as dependency for
SSB_PCICORE_HOSTMODE. See also commit 79ca239a68f8f ("bcma: Prevent
build of PCI host features in module").
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Rafał
