Re: [PATCH] rtc: bd70528: fix driver dependencies

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 17:02:31 EST


On 12/08/2019 09:36:11+0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> With CONFIG_BD70528_WATCHDOG=m, a built-in rtc driver cannot call
> into the low-level functions that are part of the watchdog module:
>
> drivers/rtc/rtc-bd70528.o: In function `bd70528_set_time':
> rtc-bd70528.c:(.text+0x22c): undefined reference to `bd70528_wdt_lock'
> rtc-bd70528.c:(.text+0x2a8): undefined reference to `bd70528_wdt_unlock'
> drivers/rtc/rtc-bd70528.o: In function `bd70528_set_rtc_based_timers':
> rtc-bd70528.c:(.text+0x50c): undefined reference to `bd70528_wdt_set'
>
> Add a Kconfig dependency which forces RTC to be a module if watchdog is a
> module. If watchdog is not compiled at all the stub functions for watchdog
> control are used. compiling the RTC without watchdog is fine.
>
> Fixes: 32a4a4ebf768 ("rtc: bd70528: Initial support for ROHM bd70528 RTC")
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Issue was found by kbuildbot from linux-next. Issue was addressed by
> Arnd and Randy - but those solutions disallowed compiling the RTC
> without watchdog. This patch is a result of discussion with Arnd and it
> was created on top of Linus' tree (tag v5.3-rc4).
> drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
Applied, thanks.

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