Currently COMPAT on SPARC64 selects COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF unconditionally, even when BINFMT_ELF is not enabled. This causes a kconfig warning. Instead, just select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF is enabled. This builds cleanly with no kconfig warnings. WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF Depends on [n]: COMPAT [=y] && BINFMT_ELF [=n] Selected by [y]: - COMPAT [=y] && SPARC64 [=y] Fixes: 26b4c912185a ("sparc,sparc64: unify Kconfig files") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-next-20201124.orig/arch/sparc/Kconfig +++ linux-next-20201124/arch/sparc/Kconfig @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ config COMPAT bool depends on SPARC64 default y - select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF + select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF if BINFMT_ELF select HAVE_UID16 select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION