Re: [PATCH -next] fsi/sbefifo: Add dependency on OF_ADDRESS

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Tue Jul 03 2018 - 11:40:33 EST


On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 12:23:20AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 06:43 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > The driver calls of_platform_device_create() which is only available
> > if OF_ADDRESS is enabled. When building sparc64 images, this results
> > in
> >
> > ERROR: "of_platform_device_create" [drivers/fsi/fsi-sbefifo.ko] undefined!
> >
> > Fixes: 9f4a8a2d7f9d ("fsi/sbefifo: Add driver for the SBE FIFO")
> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks Guenter ! I'll include this into the fsi tree.
>
> (I was wondering what that kbuild report on sparc64 was about... I must
> have misread the code, I didn't realize of_platform_device_create
> wasn't under CONFIG_OF alone).
>
No worries; pretty much everyone using one of the affected functions
falls into that trap.

Guenter