Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v5 08/11] ASoC: Intel: atom: Make PCI dependency explicit

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

> > > arch/ia64/Kconfig:126:error: recursive dependency detected!
> > > arch/ia64/Kconfig:126:    choice <choice> contains symbol IA64_HP_SIM
> > > arch/ia64/Kconfig:200:    symbol IA64_HP_SIM is part of choice PM
> > > kernel/power/Kconfig:144:    symbol PM is selected by PM_SLEEP
> > > kernel/power/Kconfig:104:    symbol PM_SLEEP depends on HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS
> > > kernel/power/Kconfig:31:    symbol HIBERNATE_CALLBACKS is selected by
> > > HIBERNATION
> > > kernel/power/Kconfig:34:    symbol HIBERNATION depends on SWAP
> > > init/Kconfig:250:    symbol SWAP depends on BLOCK
> > > block/Kconfig:5:    symbol BLOCK is selected by UBIFS_FS
> > > fs/ubifs/Kconfig:1:    symbol UBIFS_FS depends on MISC_FILESYSTEMS
> > > fs/Kconfig:220:    symbol MISC_FILESYSTEMS is selected by ACPI_APEI
> > > drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig:8:    symbol ACPI_APEI depends on ACPI
> > > drivers/acpi/Kconfig:9:    symbol ACPI depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_ACPI
> > > <<<< LOOK HERE
> > > drivers/acpi/Kconfig:6:    symbol ARCH_SUPPORTS_ACPI is selected by
> > > IA64_HP_SIM
> > > arch/ia64/Kconfig:200:    symbol IA64_HP_SIM is part of choice <choice>
> > >
> > > At any rate, a 3 mn git bisect tells me the circular dependency is
> > > exposed by this change:
> > >
> > > f3fd6cd74fedf99b6060f75df00943fda13b65f2 is the first bad commit
> > > commit f3fd6cd74fedf99b6060f75df00943fda13b65f2
> > > Author: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Sat Dec 8 12:21:38 2018 +0530
> > >
> > >       fscrypt: remove filesystem specific build config option
> > >
> > >       In order to have a common code base for fscrypt "post read" processing
> > >       for all filesystems which support encryption, this commit removes
> > >       filesystem specific build config option (e.g.
> > > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION)
> > >       and replaces it with a build option (i.e. CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION) whose
> > >       value affects all the filesystems making use of fscrypt.
> > >
> > >       Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >       Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> > FWIW, The patch at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10725883/ fixes this
> > problem by removing "select BLOCK if FS_ENCRYPTION" from fs/ubifs/Kconfig.
> OK
>
> Pierre-Louis, can you check if this patch makes the issue go away for
> you, please?

Wondering if Chandan provided the right pointer, I wasn't able to apply 
this patch, but commenting out "select BLOCK if FS_ENCRYPTION" in 
fs/ubifs/Kconfig makes the circular dependency go away. All good for me.