Re: [PATCH] misc: habanalabs: avoid HWMON dependency

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:21 PM Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:04 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When CONFIG_HWMON is disabled, we currently get a link error for this driver:
> >
> > ERROR: "hwmon_device_unregister" [drivers/misc/habanalabs/habanalabs.ko] undefined!
> > ERROR: "hwmon_device_register_with_info" [drivers/misc/habanalabs/habanalabs.ko] undefined!
> >
> > As the hardware monitoring is not a required part of the functionality,
> > make it possible to compile without HWMON by ignoring all that functionality
> > depending on the configuration.

> Hi Arnd,
> I sent a patch to gkh to fix this last week (and he merged that into
> his tree), but I took a different approach of selecting HWMON in
> kconfig (with an added depends on of HAS_IOMEM to prevent dependency
> breakage).
> I don't really want the driver to load without HWMON support. I took
> the example from AMD's amdgpu driver which does the same thing.

Ok, that's fine, I see your fix now.

I tried to avoid doing this in Kconfig, as we already have a mix of 'depends on
HWMON' and 'select HWMON', which sooner or later is likely to cause
circular dependencies. Since you don't have any 'depends on' statements
so far, it's not a problem for you though.

      Arnd