[PATCH] logfs: clarify MTD dependency

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Wed Jan 13 13:31:32 PST 2016


On 01/13/16 12:45, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 January 2016 12:39:18 Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> Randy's "logfs: fix logfs build errors and dependencies" is an
>> only-in-mm thing.  So it would make sense to combine the two patches
>> into a single one and to give that an appropriate changelog.
>>
>> How does this look? (Primary author was chosen randomly)
>>
>>
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> Subject: logfs: fix logfs build errors and dependencies
>>
>> Fix build errors that happen when CONFIG_LOGFS=y and CONFIG_MTD=m:
>>
>> fs/built-in.o: In function `logfs_mount':
>> super.c:(.text+0x92a6f): undefined reference to `logfs_get_sb_mtd'
>> fs/built-in.o: In function `logfs_get_sb_bdev':
>> (.text+0x93530): undefined reference to `logfs_get_sb_mtd'
>>
>> This patch avoids the error by changing the dependencies of
>> logfs in a way that we can no longer configure logfs as built-in
>> when the MTD core is a loadable module, while leaving the
>> dependency to require at least one of MTD or BLOCK to be
>> enabled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
>> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek at suse.cz>
>> Cc: Peter Chen <peter.chen at freescale.com>
>> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
>> Cc: Joern Engel <joern at logfs.org>
>> Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux at gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
>>
> 
> Looks good, thanks!
> 
> 	Arnd
> 

Thanks also.

-- 
~Randy



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