Re: [PATCH] power: supply: max8997_charger: make EXTCON dependency unconditional

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:33 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 08/03/2021 16:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Some of the extcon interfaces have a fallback implementation that can
> > be used when EXTCON is disabled, but some others do not, causing a
> > build failure:
> >
> > drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c:261:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'devm_extcon_register_notifier_all' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >                 ret = devm_extcon_register_notifier_all(&pdev->dev, charger->edev,
> >                       ^
> > drivers/power/supply/max8997_charger.c:261:9: note: did you mean 'devm_extcon_register_notifier'?
> > include/linux/extcon.h:263:19: note: 'devm_extcon_register_notifier' declared here
> > static inline int devm_extcon_register_notifier(struct device *dev,
> >
> > I assume there is no reason to actually build this driver without extcon
> > support, so a hard dependency is the easiest fix. Alternatively the
> > header file could be extended to provide additional inline stubs.
>
> Hi Arnd,
>
> Thanks for the patch but I think I got it covered with:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210215100610.19911-2-cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> (sent via extcon tree).
>
> Did you experience a new/different issue?

The patch should be fine and address the problem, I just didn't see it was
already fixed in linux-next as I'm still testing on mainline (rc2 at
the moment).

I assume the fix will make it into a future -rc then.

      Arnd