linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Fix spi

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Message-Id: <200612070911.22556.david-b@pacbell.net>
Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:11:21 -0800
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, ben@...ff.org,
	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Fix spi_bitbang.h

On Thursday 07 December 2006 7:37 am, David Howells wrote:
> David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> wrote:
> 
> > NAK.  Headers don't compile.  A driver including this _might_ need to
> > include that header; most won't.
> 
> Please be more specific.  It compiles for myself and for Ben.  I used the
> s3c2410_defconfig configuration.  It won't compile without it.

So tell me, what part of the kernel build tries to compile a header
file all by itself?  What object file does it become?  And where is
that object module installed?

Now, if you have an example of some _C_ file that's needs some help
compiling, that would be interesting ... and indicative of the right
place to change.
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