This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: build drivers/usb/common/ when USB_SUPPORT is set to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: usb-build-drivers-usb-common-when-usb_support-is-set.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:48:40 CET 2018 From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:00:45 -0800 Subject: usb: build drivers/usb/common/ when USB_SUPPORT is set From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c9d24f78268be444e803fb2bb138a2f598de9c23 ] PHY drivers can use ULPI interfaces when CONFIG_USB (which is host side support) is not enabled, so also build drivers/usb/ when CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT is enabled so that drivers/usb/common/ is built. ERROR: "ulpi_unregister_driver" [drivers/phy/ti/phy-tusb1210.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__ulpi_register_driver" [drivers/phy/ti/phy-tusb1210.ko] undefined! ERROR: "ulpi_read" [drivers/phy/ti/phy-tusb1210.ko] undefined! ERROR: "ulpi_write" [drivers/phy/ti/phy-tusb1210.ko] undefined! ERROR: "ulpi_unregister_driver" [drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-usb-hs.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__ulpi_register_driver" [drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-usb-hs.ko] undefined! ERROR: "ulpi_write" [drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-usb-hs.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/Makefile +++ b/drivers/Makefile @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TC) += tc/ obj-$(CONFIG_UWB) += uwb/ obj-$(CONFIG_USB_PHY) += usb/ obj-$(CONFIG_USB) += usb/ +obj-$(CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT) += usb/ obj-$(CONFIG_PCI) += usb/ obj-$(CONFIG_USB_GADGET) += usb/ obj-$(CONFIG_OF) += usb/ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/usb-build-drivers-usb-common-when-usb_support-is-set.patch