Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI_AIC94XX must depend on SCSI
From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 16:32:39 EST
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 12:35 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:22:46PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch fixes the following build error reported by Toralf FÃrster:
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> > ...
> > MODPOST 243 modules
> > ERROR: "sas_bios_param" [drivers/scsi/mvsas.ko] undefined!
>
> <snip>
>
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/Kconfig
>
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but how does patching aic94xx Kconfig
> fix an mvsas build problem?
Actually, it's a dependency chain fault. The config this was generated
from has
CONFIG_SCSI=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC94XX=y
the latter then forces
CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_LIBSAS=y
I think the error reported is wrong: the kernel just should have failed
to link, since both the built in aic94xx and libsas have scsi
dependencies.
We have a few other drivers in this category (like ibmvscsi). The root
cause seems to be that SCSI_LOWLEVEL doesn't act as a tristate. I think
a fix that will prevent all of these issues from recurring is this one.
James
---
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
index c46666a..b9d3740 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ menuconfig SCSI_LOWLEVEL
depends on SCSI!=n
default y
-if SCSI_LOWLEVEL
+if SCSI_LOWLEVEL && SCSI
config ISCSI_TCP
tristate "iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP"
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