linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] nouveau: fix acpi_lid

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Date:	Mon, 24 May 2010 14:59:40 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] nouveau: fix acpi_lid_open undefined

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:53:51AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 05/24/10 05:56, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Won't this result in a behavioural difference? The desirable outcome is 
> 
> It could, yes.
> 
> > that that configuration be impossible, not for that configuration to 
> > build but be buggy.
> 
> so nouveau should depend on (or select, if ACPI is enabled) ACPI_BUTTON?

There's an argument that it doesn't need to depend on it, but if button 
is a module then nouveau has to be. Except the inverse isn't true. 
Kconfig is hard, let's weep gently.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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