Re: [net-next PATCH v7 04/16] of: mdio: Refactor of_phy_find_device()

[Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 02:15:20PM +0530, Calvin Johnson wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:17:19PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:49:59AM +0530, Calvin Johnson wrote:
> > > Refactor of_phy_find_device() to use fwnode_phy_find_device().
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Calvin Johnson <calvin.johnson@oss.nxp.com>
> > 
> > This patch series is provoking depmod dependency cycles for me and
> > it bisected down to this patch (although I think later patches in
> > the series add further cycles).
> > 
> > The problems emerge when running modules_install either directly or
> > indirectly via packaging rules such as bindeb-pkg.
> > 
> > ~~~
> > make -j16 INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$PWD/modules modules_install
> > ...
> >   INSTALL sound/usb/misc/snd-ua101.ko
> >   INSTALL sound/usb/snd-usb-audio.ko
> >   INSTALL sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko
> >   INSTALL sound/xen/snd_xen_front.ko
> >   DEPMOD  5.12.0-rc3-00009-g1fda33bf463d
> > depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: fwnode_mdio -> of_mdio -> fwnode_mdio
> > depmod: ERROR: Found 2 modules in dependency cycles!
> > ~~~
> > 
> > Kconfig can be found here:
> > https://gist.github.com/daniel-thompson/6a7d224f3d3950ffa3f63f979b636474
> > 
> > This Kconfig file is for a highly modular kernel derived from the Debian
> > 5.10 arm64 kernel config. I was not able to reproduce using the defconfig
> > kernel for arm64.
> > 
> Thanks for catching this. I'm able to reproduce the issue and will fix it.
> 
> By the way, is there any integration tool/mechanism out there to which I can
> submit the patch series and build for various possible configs like these?

Not sure which autotester would be most likely to pick this up.

This issue is slightly unusual because it broke the install rather then
the build... and lots of people (including me) primarily run build
tests ;-) .

Anyhow, I guess the best way to pick up module problems like this is
going to be an `allmodconfig` build followed up with `rm -rf modtest;
make modules_install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$PWD/modtest`.


Daniel.