Build failure with DMA_OMAP=m and a caller built-in

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon Jan 7 15:36:46 EST 2013


* Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [130107 12:24]:
> * Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk> [130105 21:29]:
> > Various drivers use omap_dma_filter_fn() but don't depend on DMA_OMAP.
> > This is fine because there is a trivial inline definition in case
> > DMA_OMAP is disabled... until the caller is built-in and DMA_OMAP=m.
> > 
> > I tried adding the rather weird 'select DMA_OMAP if DMA_OMAP!=n' to
> > these drivers' kconfig symbols to promote it to built-in if necessary.
> > This sort of works but kconfig complains about the circular dependency
> > and it becomes impossible to disable DMA_OMAP in the 'make nconfig'
> > menu.  So that's not the right thing to do.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Hmm let's ask Russell and Vinod what they are envisioning. I believe
> there was some talk about removing the filter functions?
> 
> For the short term fix, how about ifdef out the DMA usage in the
> client drivers:
> 
> #if defined(CONFIG_DMA_OMAP_MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_MMC_OMAP_MODULE)
> 	...
> #endif

Sorry this should have been:

#if defined(CONFIG_DMA_OMAP_MODULE) && defined(CONFIG_MMC_OMAP)
	...
#endif

Regards,

Tony



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