Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] serial: 8250/uniphier: fix modular build

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Fri Feb 12 2016 - 04:38:03 EST


Hi Arnd,




2016-02-12 0:41 GMT+09:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>:
> The newly added uniphier serial port driver fails to build as
> a loadable module when the base 8250 driver is built-in and
> its console support enabled:
>
> ERROR: "early_serial8250_setup" [drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.ko] undefined!
>
> This changes the driver to only provide the early console support
> if it is built-in itself as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_uniphier.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> 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)
> {
> --
> 2.7.0
>

I noticed commit 2eaa790989e03900298ad24f77f1086dbbc1aebd
revived this link error, but I am not happy with seeing
this patch again and again.


Can you check this patch?
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8289231/



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada