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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@mips.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
	Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: ath25: Avoid undefined early_serial_setup() without SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:05:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171114140534.GA14698@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510666157-27252-1-git-send-email-matt.redfearn@mips.com>

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 01:29:17PM +0000, Matt Redfearn wrote:

> Currently MIPS allnoconfig with CONFIG_ATH25=y fails to link due to
> missing support for early_serial_setup():
> 
>   LD      vmlinux
> arch/mips/ath25/devices.o: In function ath25_serial_setup':
> devices.c:(.init.text+0x68): undefined reference to 'early_serial_setup'
> 
> Rather than adding dependencies to the platform to force inclusion of
> SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE together with it's dependencies like TTY, HAS_IOMEM,
> etc, just make ath25_serial_setup() a no-op when the dependency is not
> selected in the kernel config.

Looks like arch/mips/rb532/serial.c might be suffering from the same
issue?

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-14 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-14 13:29 [PATCH] MIPS: ath25: Avoid undefined early_serial_setup() without SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE Matt Redfearn
2017-11-14 14:05 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2017-11-14 15:43   ` Matt Redfearn

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