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Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:38:39 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To:     Necip Fazil Yildiran <fazilyildiran@gmail.com>
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paul@pgazz.com, jeho@cs.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: BMC47xx: fix kconfig dependency bug for BCM47XX_SSB
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On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 07:41:27PM +0300, Necip Fazil Yildiran wrote:
> When BCM47XX_SSB is enabled and SSB_PCIHOST is disabled, it results in the
> following Kbuild warning:
> 
> WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for SSB_B43_PCI_BRIDGE
>   Depends on [n]: SSB [=y] && SSB_PCIHOST [=n]
>   Selected by [y]:
>   - BCM47XX_SSB [=y] && BCM47XX [=y] && PCI [=y]
> 
> The reason is that BCM47XX_SSB selects SSB_B43_PCI_BRIDGE without
> depending on or selecting SSB_PCIHOST while SSB_B43_PCI_BRIDGE depends on
> SSB_PCIHOST. This can also fail building the kernel as demonstrated in a
> bug report.
> 
> Honor the kconfig dependency to remove unmet direct dependency warnings
> and avoid any potential build failures.
> 
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210051
> Signed-off-by: Necip Fazil Yildiran <fazilyildiran@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/mips/bcm47xx/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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