From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mho-04-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.74]:16194 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751307Ab3AGUVL (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:21:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:21:06 -0800 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: Build failure with DMA_OMAP=m and a caller built-in Message-ID: <20130107202106.GG14149@atomide.com> References: <1357449969.4324.25.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1357449969.4324.25.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Ben Hutchings Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Russell King , Vinod Koul * Ben Hutchings [130105 21:29]: > Various drivers use omap_dma_filter_fn() but don't depend on DMA_OMAP. > This is fine because there is a trivial inline definition in case > DMA_OMAP is disabled... until the caller is built-in and DMA_OMAP=m. > > I tried adding the rather weird 'select DMA_OMAP if DMA_OMAP!=n' to > these drivers' kconfig symbols to promote it to built-in if necessary. > This sort of works but kconfig complains about the circular dependency > and it becomes impossible to disable DMA_OMAP in the 'make nconfig' > menu. So that's not the right thing to do. > > Any ideas? Hmm let's ask Russell and Vinod what they are envisioning. I believe there was some talk about removing the filter functions? For the short term fix, how about ifdef out the DMA usage in the client drivers: #if defined(CONFIG_DMA_OMAP_MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_MMC_OMAP_MODULE) ... #endif Regards, Tony