When COMPAT is enabled and BINFMT_ELF is disabled, it results in the following Kbuild warning:
WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF Depends on [n]: COMPAT [=y] && BINFMT_ELF [=n] Selected by [y]: - COMPAT [=y] && SPARC64 [=y] The reason is that COMPAT selects COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF without depending on or selecting BINFMT_ELF while COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF depends on BINFMT_ELF. This can also fail building the kernel as demonstrated in a bug report. Honor the kconfig dependency to remove unmet direct dependency warnings and avoid any potential build failures. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209885 Signed-off-by: Necip Fazil Yildiran <fazilyildi...@gmail.com> --- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig index a6ca135442f9..22df5f0beed5 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig @@ -496,6 +496,7 @@ config COMPAT bool depends on SPARC64 default y + select BINFMT_ELF select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF select HAVE_UID16 select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC -- 2.25.1
