Re: drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.c:2405: undefined reference to `extcon_unregister_notifier'

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 04/28/2018 08:15 PM, kbuild test robot wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
> 
> FYI, the error/warning still remains.
> 
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> head:   19b9ad67310ed2f685062a00aec602bec33835f0
> commit: 688838442147d9dd94c2ef7c2c31a35cf150c5fa drm/bridge/sii8620: use micro-USB cable detection logic to detect MHL
> date:   7 weeks ago
> config: x86_64-randconfig-s4-04290805 (attached as .config)
> compiler: gcc-7 (Debian 7.3.0-16) 7.3.0
> reproduce:
>         git checkout 688838442147d9dd94c2ef7c2c31a35cf150c5fa
>         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
>         make ARCH=x86_64 
> 
> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
> 
>    drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.o: In function `sii8620_remove':
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.c:2405: undefined reference to `extcon_unregister_notifier'
>    drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.o: In function `sii8620_extcon_init':
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.c:2229: undefined reference to `extcon_find_edev_by_node'
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.c:2241: undefined reference to `extcon_register_notifier'
>    drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.o: In function `sii8620_extcon_work':
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/sil-sii8620.c:2189: undefined reference to `extcon_get_state'

The correct fix for this IMO is:
config DRM_SIL_SII8620
...
	depends on EXTCON || !EXTCON

but doing that causes kconfig-recursive-dependency-hell-messy-spaghetti.
OTOH, doing:
	select EXTCON
does not cause any kconfig recursive dependency issues and solves the build
errors.


-- 
~Randy