On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 11:40:15AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09-04-17 11:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 05:02:01PM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> > > tree:
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
> > > staging-next
> > > head: 6cb3d05f3030deed157c9bbada5c58e7ee0f5172
> > > commit: 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b [751/807] staging: Add
> > > rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver
> > > config: powerpc-allyesconfig (attached as .config)
> > > compiler: powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 6.1.1-9) 6.1.1 20160705
> > > reproduce:
> > > wget
> > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/01org/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross
> > > -O ~/bin/make.cross
> > > chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
> > > git checkout 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b
> > > # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> > > make.cross ARCH=powerpc
> >
> > This driver needs to be prevented from being built into the kernel, and
> > made only as a module to handle these "global symbol" errors.
> >
> > Hans, care to send me a patch for it?
>
> Sure, if someone can tell me the necessary Kconfig magic
> for that. I'm not aware of any way to force something being
> a module only, I guess there is some trick to this, but nothing
> straight forward comes to mind.
I'm pretty sure:
depends on MODULES
does this, or something like that.
thanks,
greg k-h
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