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Message-ID: <20091001095743.GC26962@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:57:43 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [origin tree build failure] [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: Fix build
on !CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > > > > drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 632 +++++++++++++++++++---------
> > > > >
> > > > > -tip testing found that these changes caused a build failure
> > > > > in drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c when
> > > > > !CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_HOTKEY_POLL - the fix is attached below.
> > > >
> > > > Fixed by a different patch, which will hit mainline soon....
> > >
> > > Ingo,
> > > 2.6.32-rc1 should build fine* -- let me know if it doesn't.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> > >
> > > * module this message, which Henruque assures me will go away soon
> > > drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c:2225: warning:
> > > ???tpacpi_hotkey_driver_mask_set??? defined but not used
> >
> > well, the warning is fixed properly in my patch, as pointed out in the
> > changelog. Have you read that?
>
> Your patch will break the driver when the functionality that uses
> tpacpi_hotkey_driver_mask_set() lands in mainline. That functionality
> is already in a subsystem tree waiting a push to Linus.
>
> Of course, you had no way to know that, and I failed to convey that
> detail (mostly because _I_ screwed up and forgot I had that patch
> already applied) when I replied to you. Sorry about that.
>
> The patch adding that functionality had already been submitted at the
> time you sent in your patch, and it will be merged through the
> backlight tree very soon. That patch couldn't arrive earlier because
> it needed changes both in the backlight tree AND in the ACPI tree, and
> nobody knew which tree would merge first.
>
> Now that all dependencies (both from backlight and ACPI) are already
> in mainline, I asked Richard Purdie to send it to Linus together with
> his next batch of backlight updates. That will silence the warning
> about tpacpi_hotkey_driver_mask_set().
Ok, thanks for the update!
Ingo
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