Re: [PATCH] clk: imx: scu: Fix compile error with module build of clk-scu.o

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Mon Nov 02 2020 - 18:52:27 EST


On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 01:31:59PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 11/2/20 1:01 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:15:20 -0800, Randy Dunlap said:
> >
> >> also
> >> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> However, this driver does not directly use <linux/module.h>.
> >
> > Just my luck - I looked at 3 or 4 other things that include of_platform.h
> > and they all *did* include module.h.
> >
> >> platform_device.h #includes <linux/device.h>, which is where the
> >> problem lies:
> >>
> >> <linux/device.h> uses macros that are provided by <linux/module.h>
> >> so <linux/device.h> should #include <linux/module.h>.
> >>
> >> and that fixes this commit:
> >>
> >> commit 4c002c978b7f2f2306d53de051c054504af920a9
> >> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Mon Dec 9 20:33:03 2019 +0100
> >>
> >> device.h: move 'struct driver' stuff out to device/driver.h
> >
> > OK.. who's going to do that? Me, or Randy, or Greg?
>
> You could go ahead... I began on it yesterday but didn't finish
> testing, although I did see the same build error that the 0day
> bot reported, so I don't know what it's going to take to fix that.

It's a driver problem which is being addressed by Dong's patch[1].

Shawn

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20201030153733.30160-1-aisheng.dong@xxxxxxx/