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

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Date:	Mon, 24 May 2010 13:56:28 +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 Sun, May 23, 2010 at 05:00:40PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
> 
> When CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m (and probably when ACPI_BUTTON is not enabled)
> and NOUVEAU is built-in (not as a loadable module):

Won't this result in a behavioural difference? The desirable outcome is 
that that configuration be impossible, not for that configuration to 
build but be buggy.

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