Re: drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.c:2229: undefined reference to `extcon_find_edev_by_node'

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon May 07 2018 - 12:37:04 EST


On 05/07/2018 09:13 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 05/07/2018 12:09 AM, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
>> On 06.05.2018 02:46, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On 05/05/2018 04:22 PM, kbuild test robot wrote:
>>>> Hi Maciej,
>>>>
>>>> FYI, the error/warning still remains.
>>> Hi M. Robot,
>>>
>>> I am cc-ing dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that they are aware of the
>>> multiple times that you have posted this kbuild error (I have 3 different
>>> posts in my Inbox with the same errors; I may have missed some).
>>>
>>> I hope that someone there will have some insights into this problem.
>>>
>>> I have looked at the issues and concluded that the correct fix for this IMO is:
>>>
>>> config DRM_SIL_SII8620
>>> ...
>>> depends on EXTCON || !EXTCON
>>>
>>> However, that causes some unhappy errors from scripts/kconfig/ concerning
>>> Kconfig recursive dependencies detected. Alternatively, using
>>> select EXTCON
>>> does not cause any kconfig recursive dependency issues and solves the build
>>> errors.
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>
>>
>> Hi Randy,
>>
>> Proper patch was posted some times ago[1], and it was merged today to
>> drm-misc-fixes branch.
>>
>> [1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10330653/
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Andrzej
>
> Thank you for the info.

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Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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~Randy