NFC depmod dependecy cycles

From: Daniel Wagner
Date: Tue Sep 02 2014 - 04:23:23 EST


Hi Samuel,

I just tried 3.17-rc3 and run into this problem:

# make modules_install

DEPMOD 3.17.0-rc3-00002-g7505cea
depmod: WARNING: found 6 modules in dependency cycles!
depmod: WARNING:
/lib/modules/3.17.0-rc3-00002-g7505cea/kernel/drivers/nfc/st21nfcb/st21nfcb.ko
in dependency cycle!
depmod: WARNING:
/lib/modules/3.17.0-rc3-00002-g7505cea/kernel/drivers/nfc/st21nfcb/ndlc.ko
in dependency cycle!
depmod: WARNING:
/lib/modules/3.17.0-rc3-00002-g7505cea/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko in
dependency cycle!
depmod: WARNING:
/lib/modules/3.17.0-rc3-00002-g7505cea/kernel/net/nfc/nfc.ko in
dependency cycle!
depmod: WARNING:
/lib/modules/3.17.0-rc3-00002-g7505cea/kernel/net/nfc/nci/nci.ko in
dependency cycle!
depmod: WARNING:
/lib/modules/3.17.0-rc3-00002-g7505cea/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko in
dependency cycle!
./scripts/depmod.sh: line 57: 23387 Segmentation fault (core
dumped) "$DEPMOD" "$@" "$KERNELRELEASE" $SYMBOL_PREFIX
make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 139


After disabling the whole NFC subsystem depmod was happy again.

cheers,
daniel
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