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Re: [PATCH -mm] rt2x00: fix Kconfig dependencies

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On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:51:00 +0200 Ivo van Doorn wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > >> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> If RT2X00=y but RFKILL=m, these build errors happen:
> > >>
> > >> (.text+0x7c7d6): undefined reference to `rfkill_free'
> > >> rt2x00rfkill.c:(.text+0x7c830): undefined reference to `rfkill_force_state'
> > >> (.text+0x7c88d): undefined reference to `rfkill_unregister'
> > >> (.text+0x7c8cd): undefined reference to `rfkill_register'
> > >> (.text+0x7ca1a): undefined reference to `rfkill_allocate'
> > >>
> > >> so restrict RT2X00's RFKILL config level to that of the main RFKILL option.
> > >> This is done by making the former a tristate instead of a bool
> > >> config option.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> If RT2X00=y but LEDS_CLASS=m, these build errors happen:
> > >>
> > >> (.text+0x11859f): undefined reference to `led_classdev_resume'
> > >> (.text+0x1185b3): undefined reference to `led_classdev_resume'
> > >> (.text+0x1185c7): undefined reference to `led_classdev_resume'
> > >> (.text+0x1185e4): undefined reference to `led_classdev_suspend'
> > >> (.text+0x1185f8): undefined reference to `led_classdev_suspend'
> > >> (.text+0x11860c): undefined reference to `led_classdev_suspend'
> > >> rt2x00leds.c:(.text+0x118620): undefined reference to `led_classdev_unregister'
> > >> rt2x00leds.c:(.text+0x118695): undefined reference to `led_classdev_register'
> > >>
> > >> so restrict RT2X00's LEDS config level to that of the main LEDS_CLASS option.
> > >> This is done by making the former a tristate instead of a bool
> > >> config option.
> > > 
> > > Is that really going to work correctly?
> > > rfkill and leds support should be compiled into rt2x00lib.ko, which means that
> > > should become a module instead of the rfkill/leds support part only.
> > 
> > I wondered about that lib.ko.  Any working build fix is OK with me.
> > What do you suggest?
> 
> Actually I was hoping that you answer to my question was going to be "yes it will be working correctly" ;)
> 
> Would this work?
> 
> config RT2X00_LIB_RFKILL
> 	tristate
>   	depends on RFKILL
>   	default y
>   
> config RT2X00_LIB_LEDS
> 	tristate
>   	depends on NEW_LEDS
>   	depends on LEDS_CLASS
> 	default y
> 
> config RT2X00_LIB
> 	tristate
> 	depends on RT2X00_LIB_RFKILL if (RT2X00_LIB_RFKILL != n)
> 	depends on RT2X00_LIB_LEDS if (RT2X00_LIB_LEDS != n)
> 
> It's ugly, and I can't test this right now, but perhaps you have an idea if this could do the trick?

I tried it:

drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig:22: invalid option
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig:23: invalid option

"depends ... if ..." is invalid.  Would be nice to have that.
Maybe there is some other way to express that...


> > Currently kconfig is converting an =m to =y because of tristate -> boolean.
> > This is not good.  It breaks things, as demonstrated here.
> > The Kconfig cannot stay like this AFAIK.
> 
> Agreed.


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