Re: [Regression] depmod fails on kernel 6.17.1 rc1

Ilpo Järvinen
2025-11-06T16:36:05Z

On Thu, 6 Nov 2025, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 06:15:57PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > So I'm seeing this with an allmodconfig build too:
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: 8250 -> 8250_base -> 8250
> > > depmod: ERROR: Found 2 modules in dependency cycles!
> >
> > I'm surprised it took so long to people to start complaining.
> >
> > So, some of those are modules? Can you share the
> >
> > grep 8250 .config
> >
> > part?
>
> See above.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/87frc3sd8d.fsf@posteo.net/

I wonder if 8250_rsa.o can be put into 8250_base.o where most of its
callers are anyway?

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i.