Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] platform/arm64: build drivers even on non-ARM64 platforms

From: Dmitry Baryshkov
Date: Mon Jun 24 2024 - 13:49:03 EST


On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 07:27:41PM GMT, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
>
> > The Kconfig for platforms/arm64 has 'depends on ARM64 || COMPILE_TEST'.
> > However due to Makefile having just obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64) the subdir will
> > not be descended for !ARM64 platforms and thus the drivers won't get
> > built. This breaks modular builds of other driver drivers which depend
> > on arm64 platform drivers.
> >
> > Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 363c8aea2572 ("platform: Add ARM64 platform directory")
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/platform/Makefile | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/Makefile b/drivers/platform/Makefile
> > index fbbe4f77aa5d..837202842a6f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/Makefile
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/Makefile
> > @@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_OLPC_EC) += olpc/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_GOLDFISH) += goldfish/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS) += chrome/
> > obj-$(CONFIG_SURFACE_PLATFORMS) += surface/
> > -obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64) += arm64/
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64_PLATFORM_DEVICES) += arm64/
>
> I made a second ib tag with this patch.

Thank you!

> I'm a bit disappointed that LKP didn't catch this in the patch stage, it
> feels almost as if it never built any of the versions.

Yes, I had this feeling for several other patchsets. We started getting
build errors, despite having the patch on the maling list for quite a
while. I've just got the modpost build error for drm/msm driver, for the
patchset that was on the ML for weeks.

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With best wishes
Dmitry