Re: [alsa-devel] ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/vx222/snd-vx222.ko] undefined!

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:28:05 +0100,
Nicolai Stange wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 09:20:37 +0100,
> > Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 06/03/16 14:38, kbuild test robot wrote:
> >> > Hi Nicolai,
> >> > 
> >> > FYI, the error/warning still remains.
> >> > 
> >> > tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> >> > head:   67944024c1cdd897e49a09b0d6af3ea38d1388ca
> >> > commit: 48fd8ecf29e3c1199432e173858f5ca4bc529738 framebuffer: disable vgacon on microblaze arch
> >> > date:   7 months ago
> >> > config: microblaze-allmodconfig (attached as .config)
> >> > reproduce:
> >> >         wget https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
> >> >         chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
> >> >         git checkout 48fd8ecf29e3c1199432e173858f5ca4bc529738
> >> >         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> >> >         make.cross ARCH=microblaze 
> >> > 
> >> > All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
> >> > 
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/vx222/snd-vx222.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/trident/snd-trident.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-via82xx.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-via82xx-modem.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-sonicvibes.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-maestro3.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-fm801.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-es1968.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-es1938.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-ens1371.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-ens1370.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-cmipci.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-azt3328.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/snd-als300.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/riptide/snd-riptide.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/pcxhr/snd-pcxhr.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/oxygen/snd-oxygen-lib.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/lx6464es/snd-lx6464es.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/ice1712/snd-ice1724.ko] undefined!
> >> >>> ERROR: "isa_io_base" [sound/pci/ice1712/snd-ice1712.ko] undefined!
> >> 
> >> I didn't look at this closely, but sounds like disabling vgacon on
> >> microblaze made sound drivers fail because they or microblaze does not
> >> enable something in the kernel config.
> >
> > Looking at this shortly, the reason is that EXPORT_SYMBOL() of
> > isa_io_base is missing for microblaze.  I don't know, though, why the
> > mentioned commit triggers the bug, too...
> >
> 
> I think that the commit in question did not introduce the isa_io_base
> link failer but rather revealed it in that the make process now proceeds
> to the module linking phase.
> 
> >From the commit message in question:
> 
>     Fix an allmodconfig link failer on microblaze:
>       drivers/built-in.o: In function `vgacon_save_screen':
>       drivers/video/console/.tmp_vgacon.o:(.text+0x8fc10):
>         undefined reference to `screen_info'
> 
> Thus, it seems to me, that before that commit, the linking of vmlinux
> failed. AFAICT, module linking always comes after vmlinux has been built,
> justifying my above statement.
> 
> 
> In my opinion, the best thing to do here is simply to EXPORT_SYMBOL() the
> isa_io_base as Takashi said.
> 
> Who sends a patch? Takashi, do you want to?
> If you don't, I'd gladly do it.

Go ahead, I have enough other junk foods to digest :)


thanks,

Takashi