Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 3 authors, 2020-08-28

Re: [PATCH v2] Fixes: tty: serial: earlycon dependency

From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-08-18 05:42:36
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On 17. 08. 20, 20:54, Tong Zhang wrote:
parse_options() in drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c calls uart_parse_earlycon
in drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c therefore selecting SERIAL_EARLYCON
should automatically select SERIAL_CORE, otherwise will result in symbol
not found error during linking if SERIAL_CORE is not configured as builtin

Signed-off-by: Tong Zhang <redacted>
The "Fixes:" keyword should not have been in the Subject but here.
According to your findings something like this:

Fixes: 73abaf87f01b (serial: earlycon: Refactor parse_options into
serial core)

I am not sure:
1) it should be "select" (and not "depends")
2) serial earlycon should depend on serial core. But it's likely OK.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
index 8a0352eb337c..42e844314cbb 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ menu "Serial drivers"
 
 config SERIAL_EARLYCON
 	bool
+	select SERIAL_CORE
 	help
 	  Support for early consoles with the earlycon parameter. This enables
 	  the console before standard serial driver is probed. The console is
thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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