Re: [PATCH -next] tty: serial: imx: fix link error with CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=n

[Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>]

Hi,

On 2020/9/18 19:16, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 05:13:05PM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
>> Fix the link error by selecting SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE.
>>
>> aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.o: in function `imx_uart_console_early_write':
>> imx_earlycon.c:(.text+0x84): undefined reference to `uart_console_write'
>>
>> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
>> index 9631ccf43378..1044fc387691 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
>> @@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ config SERIAL_IMX_EARLYCON
>>   	depends on ARCH_MXC || COMPILE_TEST
>>   	depends on OF
>>   	select SERIAL_EARLYCON
>> +	select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
>>   	help
>>   	  If you have enabled the earlycon on the Freescale IMX
>>   	  CPU you can make it the earlycon by answering Y to this option.
>> -- 
>> 2.25.1
>>
> What caused this build error to start happening?  Any pointers to the
> specific commit?

It's start from 699cc4dfd140 ("tty: serial: imx: add imx earlycon 
driver"), the driver

uses the uart_console_write(), but SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE is not selected, 
so uart_console_write

is not defined, then we get the error.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
> .