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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 26 (usbcore)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:16:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120326201622.GA29228@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1203261550290.1179-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 04:06:59PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:58:36AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > On 03/25/2012 09:28 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > Reminder: please do not add stuff destined for v3.5 to linux-next
> > > > included trees/branches until after v3.4-rc1 has been released.
> > > > 
> > > > Changes since 20120323:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > on x86_64:
> > > 
> > > ERROR: "utf16s_to_utf8s" [drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko] undefined!
> > > ERROR: "usb_speed_string" [drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko] undefined!
> > > 
> > > Full randconfig file is attached.
> > 
> > Odd, nothing in the usb core has changed in a while in this area,
> > although we might have gotten some core dependancies mixed up for random
> > configurations like this.
> 
> This is puzzling.
> 
> 	utf16s_to_utf8s is defined in fs/nls/nls_base.c,
> 	which is built according to CONFIG_NLS (in fs/nls/Makefile),
> 	which is selected by CONFIG_USB (in drivers/usb/Kconfig).
> 
> But the config that Randy attached had CONFIG_USB set to M and 
> CONFIG_NLS not set.  How is that possible?
> 
> 	usb_speed_string is defined in drivers/usb/usb-common.c,
> 	which is built according to CONFIG_USB_COMMON (in
> 		drivers/usb/Makefile),
> 	which defaults to Y if CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT and either
> 		CONFIG_USB or CONFIG_USB_GADGET is set (in 
> 		drivers/usb/Kconfig).
> 
> The problem here was that CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT isn't set but CONFIG_USB
> is set to M.  This used not to be possible, since CONFIG_USB was
> defined inside an "if USB_SUPPORT" section.  Maybe that got changed and
> needs to be fixed (but
> https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git thinks
> it's still not possible).  Or maybe Randy's tree is a little out of 
> date.

Yeah, that is strange, thanks for looking into it.

Randy, any thoughts?

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-26 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-26  4:28 linux-next: Tree for Mar 26 Stephen Rothwell
2012-03-26 16:58 ` linux-next: Tree for Mar 26 (usbcore) Randy Dunlap
2012-03-26 18:07   ` Greg KH
2012-03-26 20:06     ` Alan Stern
2012-03-26 20:16       ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-03-28 16:56         ` Randy Dunlap
2012-03-28 23:11           ` Greg KH
2012-03-26 20:38       ` Randy Dunlap
2012-03-26 17:08 ` linux-next: Tree for Mar 26 (platform/x86/apple-gmux) Randy Dunlap
2012-03-26 18:59   ` Seth Forshee
2012-03-26 19:00     ` Matthew Garrett

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