Re: [PATCH] USB: cdc_subset: only build when one driver is enabled

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Feb 18 2016 - 16:00:39 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:25:11 +0100

> This avoids a harmless randconfig warning I get when USB_NET_CDC_SUBSET
> is enabled, but all of the more specific drivers are not:
>
> drivers/net/usb/cdc_subset.c:241:2: #warning You need to configure some hardware for this driver
>
> The current behavior is clearly intentional, giving a warning when
> a user picks a configuration that won't do anything good. The only
> reason for even addressing this is that I'm getting close to
> eliminating all 'randconfig' warnings on ARM, and this came up
> a couple of times.
>
> My workaround is to not even build the module when none of the
> configurations are enable.
>
> Alternatively we could simply remove the #warning (nothing wrong
> for compile-testing), turn it into a runtime warning, or
> change the Kconfig options into a menu to hide CONFIG_USB_NET_CDC_SUBSET.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks Arnd.