Re: [PATCH] logfs: clarify MTD dependency

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Jan 13 2016 - 16:31:40 EST


On 01/13/16 12:45, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 January 2016 12:39:18 Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>> Randy's "logfs: fix logfs build errors and dependencies" is an
>> only-in-mm thing. So it would make sense to combine the two patches
>> into a single one and to give that an appropriate changelog.
>>
>> How does this look? (Primary author was chosen randomly)
>>
>>
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: logfs: fix logfs build errors and dependencies
>>
>> Fix build errors that happen when CONFIG_LOGFS=y and CONFIG_MTD=m:
>>
>> fs/built-in.o: In function `logfs_mount':
>> super.c:(.text+0x92a6f): undefined reference to `logfs_get_sb_mtd'
>> fs/built-in.o: In function `logfs_get_sb_bdev':
>> (.text+0x93530): undefined reference to `logfs_get_sb_mtd'
>>
>> This patch avoids the error by changing the dependencies of
>> logfs in a way that we can no longer configure logfs as built-in
>> when the MTD core is a loadable module, while leaving the
>> dependency to require at least one of MTD or BLOCK to be
>> enabled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Looks good, thanks!
>
> Arnd
>

Thanks also.

--
~Randy