Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: pxa: guard sub-directory with CONFIG_PINCTRL_PXA

[Robert Jarzmik]

Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 2016-01-24 2:56 GMT+09:00 kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Masahiro,
>>
>> [auto build test ERROR on next-20160122]
>> [cannot apply to v4.4-rc8 v4.4-rc7 v4.4-rc6 v4.4]
>> [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improving the system]
>>
>> url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Masahiro-Yamada/pinctrl-pxa-guard-sub-directory-with-CONFIG_PINCTRL_PXA/20160123-233501
>> config: x86_64-allmodconfig (attached as .config)
>> reproduce:
>>         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
>>         make ARCH=x86_64
>>
>> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
>>
>>>> ERROR: "pxa2xx_pinctrl_init" [drivers/pinctrl/pxa/pinctrl-pxa27x.ko] undefined!
>>
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>
>
> driver/pinctrl/pxa/ has never been compile-tested before,
It was, and runtime tested also, in a builtin form. It was not activated in the
kernel at the arch/arm pxa architecture level would be a better statement.

> [2]  this driver is declared as tristate, but it cannot be a module,
> so I posted this:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8097781/
Yes this certainly is a bug.

> I hope [2] will be applied before this patch
> in order to suppress the complaint by the kbuild test robot.
Let's see what Linus thinks of it.

Cheers.

-- 
Robert