linux-kernel - Re: Failed build on randconfig for DVB

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Date:	Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:03:45 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Patrick Boettcher <pboettcher@...nellabs.com>,
	Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: Failed build on randconfig for DVB_DIB modules

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 22:54 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Or we just don't test for define(MODULE). If either CONFIG_DVB_DIB3000MC
> or CONFIG_DVB_DIB3000MC_MODULE are defined, the code must be there,
> because, if this code is built as both a module and builtin, only the
> builtin will be created.

Ah, I just tried it, and I see that the code in that #if statement calls
back into the dib3000mc module, so now the core kernel has missing
functions. This is a bit of a nasty web.

I guess it would require one of your proposed solutions, or I just
simply add the dvb configs to my broken-config file and prevent
randconfig from testing it.

-- Steve


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