Re: [PATCH] media: i2c: thp7312: select CONFIG_FW_LOADER

Laurent Pinchart
2024-01-03T17:48:13Z

Hi Arnd,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 04:58:05PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> The recently added driver uses the firmware loader mechanism but causes
> a link failure when that is in a loadable module while thp7312 itself
> is built-in:
>
> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/media/i2c/thp7312.o: in function `thp7312_probe':
> thp7312.c:(.text+0x4164): undefined reference to `firmware_upload_register'
>
> Select the required Kconfig symbol. Note that the driver specifically
> needs the firmware upload interface that is controlled by CONFIG_FW_UPLOAD,
> but there is no link failure when that is disabled because the interfaces
> are stubbed out here.
>
> Fixes: 7a52ab415b43 ("media: i2c: Add driver for THine THP7312")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

I've posted a similar fix yesterday, see
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20240102074518.24968-1-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com

What approach do you think is best ?

> ---
> drivers/media/i2c/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/Kconfig b/drivers/media/i2c/Kconfig
> index 78a87331686e..4c3435921f19 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/i2c/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/Kconfig
> @@ -674,6 +674,7 @@ menu "Camera ISPs"
> config VIDEO_THP7312
> tristate "THine THP7312 support"
> depends on I2C
> + select FW_LOADER
> select MEDIA_CONTROLLER
> select V4L2_CCI_I2C
> select V4L2_FWNODE

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart