linux-kernel - Re: [patch] dvb: build failure fix

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Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:01:39 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
Cc:	mkrufky@...uxtv.org, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] dvb: build failure fix

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 04:52:14PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:31:42 -0400
> mkrufky@...uxtv.org wrote:
> 
> > > Are there actually reports from users running into this problem?
> 
> No.
> 
> Yet, the configuration may be valid. If you have a board with tda8290, it
> _will_ need another chip, like tda827x.
> 
> In the past, both tda8290 and tda827x were handled by the same driver, and
> worked for analog only.
> 
> So, IMO, this is a regression.
>...

drivers/media/ is the part of the kernel with the most fragile kconfig
constructs.

And we are talking about bringing a solution into -stable that has never 
and will never be in mainline.

A compile error in a configuration without practical relevance isn't a 
huge problem, and I'd vote for leaving -stable unchanged.

> Cheers,
> Mauro

cu
Adrian

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