Hi Guenter,
Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> wrote on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:14:47
-0700:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:27:21AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > With commit 91e81150d388 ("mtd: parsers: bcm63xx: simplify CFE
> > detection"), we generate a reference to fw_arg3 which is the fourth
> > firmware/command line argument on MIPS platforms. That symbol is not
> > exported and would cause a linking failure.
> >
> > The parser is typically necessary to boot a BCM63xx-based system anyway
> > so having it be part of the kernel image makes sense, therefore make it
> > 'bool' instead of 'tristate'.
> >
> > Fixes: 91e81150d388 ("mtd: parsers: bcm63xx: simplify CFE detection")
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
>
> What happened with this patch ? The build failure is still seen in mainline
> and in next-20201009.
It has been applied on mtd/next:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git/log/?h=mtd/next
(I don't remember when though)
