Re: [PATCH] usb: renesas: fix extcon dependency

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:47:18PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The renesas usbhs driver calls extcon_get_edev_by_phandle(), which
> is defined in drivers/extcon/extcon-class.c, and that can be a
> loadable module. If the extcon-class support is disabled, usbhs
> will work correctly for all devices that do not need extcon.
> 
> However, if extcon-class is a loadable module, and usbhs is
> built-in, the kernel fails to link. In order to solve that,
> we need a Kconfig dependency that allows extcon to be disabled
> but does not allow usbhs built-in if extcon is a module.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/Kconfig
> index de83b9d0cd5c..0ea9040b9f10 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/Kconfig
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ config USB_RENESAS_USBHS
>  	tristate 'Renesas USBHS controller'
>  	depends on USB_GADGET
>  	depends on ARCH_SHMOBILE || SUPERH || COMPILE_TEST
> +	depends on EXTCON || !EXTCON # for module build if extcon is

The comment doesn't make much sense on its own (and when I read it before
reading the above description, it was down right confusing.)  Maybe a
longer comment would be a good idea?

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