[PATCH 07/10] pinctrl: sx150x: enable building modules with COMPILE_TEST=y

Bartosz Golaszewski bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org
Wed Apr 16 23:42:05 PDT 2025


On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 at 00:37, Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Bartosz,
>
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 09:17:44AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org>
> >
> > Increase the build coverage by enabling the sx150x modules with
> > COMPILE_TEST=y.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski at linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig b/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig
> > index 464cc9aca157..94eb41bb9cf2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig
> > @@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ config PINCTRL_STMFX
> >
> >  config PINCTRL_SX150X
> >       bool "Semtech SX150x I2C GPIO expander pinctrl driver"
> > -     depends on I2C=y
> > +     depends on I2C=y || COMPILE_TEST
> >       select PINMUX
> >       select PINCONF
> >       select GENERIC_PINCONF
> >
> > --
> > 2.45.2
> >
>
> This appears to break allmodconfig with
>
>   ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: i2c_get_match_data
>   >>> referenced by pinctrl-sx150x.c
>   >>>               drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-sx150x.o:(sx150x_probe) in archive vmlinux.a
>
>   ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: i2c_smbus_write_byte_data
>   >>> referenced by pinctrl-sx150x.c
>   >>>               drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-sx150x.o:(sx150x_probe) in archive vmlinux.a
>   >>> referenced by pinctrl-sx150x.c
>   >>>               drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-sx150x.o:(sx150x_probe) in archive vmlinux.a
>   >>> referenced by pinctrl-sx150x.c
>   >>>               drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-sx150x.o:(sx150x_regmap_reg_write) in archive vmlinux.a
>
>   ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: i2c_smbus_read_byte_data
>   >>> referenced by pinctrl-sx150x.c
>   >>>               drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-sx150x.o:(sx150x_regmap_reg_read) in archive vmlinux.a
>
>   ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: i2c_register_driver
>   >>> referenced by pinctrl-sx150x.c
>   >>>               drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-sx150x.o:(sx150x_init) in archive vmlinux.a
>   make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:91: vmlinux] Error 1
>
> I don't think this change makes much sense in light of this error,
> unless the driver was converted to tristate.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan

Makes sense. Linus: Can you just drop this or do you prefer a formal revert?

Bart



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