Re: [PATCH] power: supply: max8997_charger: make EXTCON dependency unconditional

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Mon Mar 08 2021 - 11:12:48 EST


On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 17:02, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:33 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 08/03/2021 16:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Some of the extcon interfaces have a fallback implementation that can
> > > be used when EXTCON is disabled, but some others do not, causing a
> > > build failure:
> > >
> > > drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c:261:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'devm_extcon_register_notifier_all' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> > > ret = devm_extcon_register_notifier_all(&pdev->dev, charger->edev,
> > > ^
> > > drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c:261:9: note: did you mean 'devm_extcon_register_notifier'?
> > > include/linux/extcon.h:263:19: note: 'devm_extcon_register_notifier' declared here
> > > static inline int devm_extcon_register_notifier(struct device *dev,
> > >
> > > I assume there is no reason to actually build this driver without extcon
> > > support, so a hard dependency is the easiest fix. Alternatively the
> > > header file could be extended to provide additional inline stubs.
> >
> > Hi Arnd,
> >
> > Thanks for the patch but I think I got it covered with:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210215100610.19911-2-cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> > (sent via extcon tree).
> >
> > Did you experience a new/different issue?
>
> The patch should be fine and address the problem, I just didn't see it was
> already fixed in linux-next as I'm still testing on mainline (rc2 at
> the moment).
>
> I assume the fix will make it into a future -rc then.

It's still only in linux-next via extcon tree, so it seems Greg did
not take it yet.

Chanwoo,
You might need to follow up on this, so your pull request won't get lost.

Best regards,
Krzysztof