Re: [PATCH] 8250: uniphier: allow modular build with 8250 console

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:21 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 21 January 2016 20:39:03 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> 2016-01-14 7:33 GMT+09:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>:
>> > The recently added uniphier 8250 port driver supports early console
>> > probing, and it supports being built as a module, but the combination
>> > of the two fails to link:
>> >
>> > ERROR: "early_serial8250_setup" [drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.ko] undefined!
>> >
>> > Given that earlycon support in a loadable module makes no sense,
>> > making that code conditional on 'MODULE' is a correct solution.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> > Fixes: b8d20e06eaad ("serial: 8250_uniphier: add earlycon support")
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c
>> > index bab6b3ae2540..1b7bd26555b7 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c
>> > @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct uniphier8250_priv {
>> >         spinlock_t atomic_write_lock;
>> >  };
>> >
>> > -#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
>> > +#if defined(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE) && !defined(MODULE)
>> >  static int __init uniphier_early_console_setup(struct earlycon_device *device,
>> >                                                const char *options)
>> >  {
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> If my patch (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8029331/) is accepted,
>> this build error will be fixed as well.  But I doubt it is accepted soon...
>>
>> So, I am OK with this workaround to fix "make allmodconfig".
>>
>> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Good point. Adding the DT maintainers to Cc. Guys, any chance of you
> picking up Masahiro's patch for 4.5?

I will if you can update the commit log with the details here about it
fixing an actual problem.

Rob