Re: [PATCH] drivers: Select dependencies for the VIRTUALIZATION symbol

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sat Jun 08 2013 - 19:40:56 EST


On 06/07/13 04:23, Markos Chandras wrote:
> The VIRTUALIZATION symbol depends on HAVE_KVM but CONFIG_REMOTEPROC
> and CONFIG_RPMSG do not select HAVE_KVM leading to the following
> warning and build problems later on:
>
> warning: (REMOTEPROC && RPMSG) selects VIRTUALIZATION which has unmet
> direct dependencies (HAVE_KVM)
> warning: (REMOTEPROC && RPMSG) selects VIRTUALIZATION which has unmet
> direct dependencies (HAVE_KVM)
>
> Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx>

This seems odd. Usually architectures declare that they HAVE_xyz
and then drivers etc. can use that symbol to do (or not do) something.

See Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt and search for /HAVE_/.

> ---
> drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig b/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig
> index d4d377c..79648ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/Kconfig
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ config REMOTEPROC
> depends on HAS_DMA
> select CRC32
> select FW_LOADER
> + select HAVE_KVM
> select VIRTIO
> select VIRTUALIZATION
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig b/drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig
> index 69a2193..3f0bd0f 100644
> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ menu "Rpmsg drivers"
> # RPMSG always gets selected by whoever wants it
> config RPMSG
> tristate
> + select HAVE_KVM
> select VIRTIO
> select VIRTUALIZATION
>
>


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~Randy
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