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author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2015-02-18 14:12:42 -0300 |
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committer | Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> | 2015-06-28 13:39:23 -0400 |
commit | ea0a522aef212afc09cd84503cfea58942b9404a (patch) | |
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[media] Add and use IS_REACHABLE macro
[ Upstream commit 9b174527e7b756cda9f5d9e541f87b7fec9cfdf0 ]
In the media drivers, the v4l2 core knows about all submodules
and calls into them from a common function. However this cannot
work if the modules that get called are loadable and the
core is built-in. In that case we get
drivers/built-in.o: In function `set_type':
drivers/media/v4l2-core/tuner-core.c:301: undefined reference to `tea5767_attach'
drivers/media/v4l2-core/tuner-core.c:307: undefined reference to `tea5761_attach'
drivers/media/v4l2-core/tuner-core.c:349: undefined reference to `tda9887_attach'
drivers/media/v4l2-core/tuner-core.c:405: undefined reference to `xc4000_attach'
This was working previously, until the IS_ENABLED() macro was used
to replace the construct like
#if defined(CONFIG_DVB_CX24110) || (defined(CONFIG_DVB_CX24110_MODULE) && defined(MODULE))
with the difference that the new code no longer checks whether it is being
built as a loadable module itself.
To fix this, this new patch adds an 'IS_REACHABLE' macro, which evaluates
true in exactly the condition that was used previously. The downside
of this is that this trades an obvious link error for a more subtle
runtime failure, but it is clear that the change that introduced the
link error was unintentional and it seems better to revert it for
now. Also, a similar change was originally created by Trent Piepho
and then reverted by teh change to the IS_ENABLED macro.
Ideally Kconfig would be used to avoid the case of a broken dependency,
or the code restructured in a way to turn around the dependency, but either
way would require much larger changes here.
Fixes: 7b34be71db53 ("[media] use IS_ENABLED() macro")
See-also: c5dec9fb248e ("V4L/DVB (4751): Fix DBV_FE_CUSTOMISE for card drivers compiled into kernel")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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