Re: [PATCH -next] comedi: fix build when USB is not enabled

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri May 18 2012 - 20:50:32 EST


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 05:46:13PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Calls to optional subsystems cannot be made indiscriminately.
> Enclose all of the usb helper functions inside
> #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_USB)
> to fix these build errors.
>
> (The pci helper functions are OK since there are stubs in
> linux/pci.h for the called functions when PCI is not enabled.
> Possibly the same could be done for the called USB functions.)
>
> ERROR: "usb_deregister" [drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "usb_register_driver" [drivers/staging/comedi/comedi.ko] undefined!

I would rather stub these out in usb.h instead, care to make a patch for
that?

thanks,

greg k-h
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