[PATCH v2 5/6] serial: 8250/mediatek: fix building with SERIAL_8250=m

Matthias Brugger matthias.bgg at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 15:14:14 PST 2016



On 11/02/16 16:41, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The Mediatek 8250 driver has a 'bool' Kconfig symbol, but that
> breaks when SERIAL_8250 is a loadable module:
>
> drivers/tty/built-in.o: In function `mtk8250_set_termios':
> :(.text+0x1bee8): undefined reference to `serial8250_do_set_termios'
> :(.text+0x1bf10): undefined reference to `uart_get_baud_rate'
> :(.text+0x1c09c): undefined reference to `uart_get_divisor'
> drivers/tty/built-in.o: In function `mtk8250_do_pm':
> :(.text+0x1c0d0): undefined reference to `serial8250_do_pm'
> drivers/tty/built-in.o: In function `mtk8250_probe':
> :(.text+0x1c2e4): undefined reference to `serial8250_register_8250_port'
> serial/8250/8250_mtk.c:287:242: error: data definition has no type or storage class [-Werror]
> serial/8250/8250_mtk.c:287:122: error: 'mtk8250_platform_driver_init' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
>
> This changes the symbol to a 'tristate', so the dependency on
> SERIAL_8250 also works when that is set to 'm'.
> To actually build the driver, we also need to include <linux/module.h>.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---

Acked-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg at gmail.com>



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