Re: [PATCH] [media] staging/davinci_vfpe: allow modular build

[Sekhar Nori]

On Thursday 10 December 2015 08:10 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:29:38 +0100
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> 
>> It has never been possible to actually build this driver as
>> a loadable module, only built-in because the Makefile attempts
>> to build each file into its own module and fails:
>>
>> ERROR: "mbus_to_pix" [drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_video.ko] undefined!
>> ERROR: "vpfe_resizer_register_entities" [drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_mc_capture.ko] undefined!
>> ERROR: "rsz_enable" [drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/dm365_resizer.ko] undefined!
>> ERROR: "config_ipipe_hw" [drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/dm365_ipipe.ko] undefined!
>> ERROR: "ipipe_set_lutdpc_regs" [drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/dm365_ipipe.ko] undefined!
>>
>> It took a long time to catch this bug with randconfig builds
>> because at least 14 other Kconfig symbols have to be enabled in
>> order to configure this one.
>>
>> The solution is really easy: this patch changes the Makefile to
>> link all files into one module.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/Makefile b/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/Makefile
>> index c64515c644cd..3019c9ecd548 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/Makefile
>> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
>> -obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DM365_VPFE) += \
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DM365_VPFE) += davinci-vfpe.o
>> +
>> +davinci-vfpe-objs := \
>>  	dm365_isif.o dm365_ipipe_hw.o dm365_ipipe.o \
>>  	dm365_resizer.o dm365_ipipeif.o vpfe_mc_capture.o vpfe_video.o
>>
> 
> That seems a bad signal to me... I guess either this driver was never
> actually tested or it was tested only if compiled as built-in...

Most likely the later is true.

+ Prabhakar to see if he remembers.

Thanks,
Sekhar
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