arm64 defconfig breakage (gpio) in next-20130218

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Feb 21 05:02:15 EST 2013


On Thursday 21 February 2013 17:31:07 Shawn Guo wrote:
> > 
> > I've bisected this down to 0fa2fd9a0d: "Merge branch 'linusw/devel' of
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio.git into
> > gpio/next". Both parent commits build fine.
> > 
> > I've played around a bit, and selecting ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB in the arm64
> > Kconfig fixes the issue, but I'm unfamilar with gpio{,lib} and I'm not sure
> > that's the best/correct way of solving this.
> 
> Kconfig GENERIC_GPIO is designed as an option defined at architecture
> level and select by platform who knows how gpio driver/API is
> implemented.  The following change should fix the error.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index f532ce5..aca4a25 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ config IOMMU_HELPER
>         def_bool SWIOTLB
> 
>  config GENERIC_GPIO
> -       def_bool y
> +       bool
> 
>  source "init/Kconfig"

But we have no arm64 platforms that would pick GENERIC_GPIO, it's expected
to come from GPIOLIB anyway. I think the right fix is this:

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index ab4aa54..3fab0db 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
 	select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
 	select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
+	select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
 	select ARM_AMBA
 	select ARM_ARCH_TIMER
 	select CLONE_BACKWARDS
@@ -92,9 +93,6 @@ config SWIOTLB
 config IOMMU_HELPER
 	def_bool SWIOTLB
 
-config GENERIC_GPIO
-	def_bool y
-
 source "init/Kconfig"
 
 source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"


	Arnd



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