* [stable] Re: Dependency bug in the uvcvideo Kconfig
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@ 2013-09-19 23:00 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-09-27 23:14 ` Greg KH
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From: Randy Dunlap @ 2013-09-19 23:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff P. Zacher, Peter Senna Tschudin, linux-media, LKML, stable
On 09/19/13 13:17, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 09/18/13 20:44, Jeff P. Zacher wrote:
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>> You are correct that this problem shown in the forum was in 3.5.4. However, I am
>> having wither the same or similar problem in 3.10.7.
>> Here is the broken config file, saved as .config-bad
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> The failing kernel config file is attached.
For Linux 3.10.x:
This is already fixed in mainline but patches need to be backported.
Specifically these 2 commits (in this order):
commit a0f9354b1a319cb29c331bfd2e5a15d7f9b87fa4
Author: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Date: Wed May 8 17:28:13 2013 -0300
[media] media/usb: fix kconfig dependencies
and
commit 5077ac3b8108007f4a2b4589f2d373cf55453206
Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Date: Wed May 22 11:25:52 2013 -0300
Properly handle tristate dependencies on USB/PCI menus
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>> On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 03:52:36 PM you wrote:
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>>> On 09/18/13 08:37, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
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>>>> Hi Randy,
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>>>>
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>>>> I've tried to download the .config file from the link on the forum,
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>>>> but it tries to install something in my browser and the file is not
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>>>> downloadable for me. Can you provide it over an simpler interface such
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>>>> as pastebin.com?
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>>>>
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>>>> Thanks
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>>>
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>>> The original poster (Jeff) should have mentioned that is is a build bug
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>>> problem in Linux 3.5.4. Jeff, have you tried 3.5.7? I expect that this
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>>> problem is already fixed, if not in 3.5.x then in some later kernel
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>>> version.
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>>> Jeff, also please provide the kernel .config file as an attachment here
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>>> since the one posted in the forum does not download (or has been deleted).
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>>>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
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>>>>> [adding linux-media mailing list]
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>>>>>
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>>>>> On 09/18/13 06:18, Jeff P. Zacher wrote:
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>>>>>> Not subscribed, please CC'me in replies:
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>> There seems to be a dependency bug in the Kconfig for the uvcvideo
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>>>>>> kernel
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>>>>>> module. If uvcvideo is built in and usb support is built as a module,
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>>>>>> the
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>>>>>> kernel build will fail with the obviously missing dependanies.
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>>>>>> Error logs:
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>>>>>> * ERROR: Failed to compile the "bzImage" target...
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>>>>>> *
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>>>>>> * -- Grepping log... --
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>>>>>> *
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>>>>>> * SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/keywords.hash.c
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>>>>>> * SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.h
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>>>>>> * SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.c
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>>>>>> * HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/lex.lex.o
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>>>>>> *scripts/genksyms/lex.lex.c_shipped: In function ‘yylex1’:
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>>>>>> *scripts/genksyms/lex.lex.c_shipped:904:1: warning: ignoring return
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>>>>>> value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
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>>>>>> [-Wunused-result] *--
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>>>>>> * CC drivers/video/console/font_8x16.o
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>>>>>> * CC drivers/video/console/softcursor.o
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>>>>>> * CC sound/core/seq/seq_memory.o
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>>>>>> * CC drivers/video/console/fbcondecor.o
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>>>>>> * CC sound/core/seq/seq_queue.o
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>>>>>> *drivers/video/console/fbcondecor.c:511:6: warning: function declaration
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>>>>>> isn’t a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes]
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>>>>>> *--
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>>>>>> *(.text+0xf8fb1): undefined reference to `usb_submit_urb'
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>>>>>> *drivers/built-in.o: In function `uvc_init':
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>>>>>> *uvc_driver.c:(.init.text+0x908a): undefined reference to
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>>>>>> `usb_register_driver'
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>>>>>> *drivers/built-in.o: In function `uvc_cleanup':
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>>>>>> *uvc_driver.c:(.exit.text+0x67e): undefined reference to
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>>>>>> `usb_deregister'
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>>>>>> *make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
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>>>>>> *--
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>>>>>> * Running with options: --lvm --menuconfig all
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>>>>>> * Using genkernel.conf from /etc/genkernel.conf
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>>>>>> * Sourcing arch-specific config.sh from
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>>>>>> /usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86_64/config.sh ..
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>>>>>> * Sourcing arch-specific modules_load from
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>>>>>> /usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86_64/modules_load ..
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>>>>>> *
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>>>>>> * ERROR: Failed to compile the "bzImage" target...
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>>>>>> *
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>>>>>> * -- End log... --
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>>>>>> Compiling uvc as a module allows the compilation to complete.
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>>>>>> Platform x86_64
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>>>>>> Ref: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7398782.html#7398782
--
~Randy
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