Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging: kpc2000: make kconfig symbol 'KPC2000' select dependencies

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 01:35:02AM +0000, Geordan Neukum wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:27 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > depends on is better than select.  There's a change to depend on UIO for
> > this code already in my -linus branch which will show up in Linus's tree
> > in a week or so.
> 
> Noted on both accounts. Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the
> inconvenience on the latter.
> 
> > Are you sure we need MFD_CORE as well for this code?
> 
> I noticed the build issue when working locally. I was doing
> something along the lines of: 'make distclean && make x86_64_defconfig',
> selecting 'CONFIG_KPC2000' and 'CONFIG_UIO' via menuconfig, then
> running a good old 'make'. From make, I received an error along the
> lines of:
> 
> ERROR: "mfd_remove_devices"
> [drivers/staging/kpc2000/kpc2000/kpc2000.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "mfd_add_devices" [drivers/staging/kpc2000/kpc2000/kpc2000.ko] undefined!
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:91: __modpost] Error 1
> make: *** [Makefile:1290: modules] Error 2
> 
> which appears to indicate that those two symbols are undefined. When
> I looked, it appeared that those symbols were exported from the
> mfd-core which is why I also threw in a select for that Kconfig
> symbol. Assuming that I didn't do something silly above, I'd be happy
> to submit a new patch (with only a depends on for MFD_CORE) as I
> continue trying to fix up the i2c driver.

Yes, a depends for MFD_CORE would be good, can you base it against my
staging-linus branch so that fix can go to Linus for this release?

thanks,

greg k-h