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Re: [PATCH] mt76: fix building without CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS

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Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> When CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS is disabled, or it is a loadable module while
> mt76 is built-in, we run into a link error:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mac80211.o: In function `mt76_register_device':
> mac80211.c:(.text+0xb78): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against undefined symbol `devm_of_led_classdev_register'
>
> We don't really need a hard dependency here as the driver can presumably
> work just fine without LEDs, so this follows the iwlwifi example and
> adds a separate Kconfig option for the LED support, this will be available
> whenever it will link, and otherwise the respective code gets left out from
> the driver object.
>
> Fixes: 17f1de56df05 ("mt76: add common code shared between multiple chipsets")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Should this go to 4.20? A linker error is pretty bad, even though I
think this is few months old issue already.

And are conflicts with -next version of mt76 likely?

-- 
Kalle Valo



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