Re: [PATCH v1 1/1]: iio: light: rpr0521: add missing Kconfig dependencies

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Nov 10 2022 - 10:42:52 EST


On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 09:44:48AM -0500, Paul Gazzillo wrote:
> Steps to reproduce (v6.1-rc2, x86_64):
>
> 1. make defconfig menuconfig
> 2. Enable the driver:
> -> Device Drivers
> -> Industrial I/O support (IIO [=y])
> -> Light sensors
> -> ROHM RPR0521 ALS and proximity sensor driver
> 3. make drivers/iio/light/rpr0521.o
>
> Causes "implicit declaration of function" errors, e.g.,

> CC drivers/iio/light/rpr0521.o
> drivers/iio/light/rpr0521.c: In function 'rpr0521_drdy_irq_thread':

These two lines can be removed.

> drivers/iio/light/rpr0521.c:434:3: error: implicit declaration of function
> 'iio_trigger_poll_chained' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> 434 | iio_trigger_poll_chained(data->drdy_trigger0);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> (This bug was found with the help of a tool, krepair, that generates
> configuration files for commits: https://github.com/paulgazz/kmax)

I'm not sure we need this in the commit message. Do we have a tag for
the static analyzers?

> The following patch ensures that the code controlled by IIO_BUFFER and
> IIO_TRIGGERED_BUFFER is available:

> Reported-by: Paul Gazzillo <paul@xxxxxxxxx>

Without SoB this may not be anyhow proceeded. Please, read Submitting Patches
documentation and try again.

(Btw, Reported-by above contradicts the commit message that refers to the tool,
and not human)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko