linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (net tree related)

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Message-ID: <20100927184445.GF11086@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:44:46 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (net
 tree related)

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:38:50PM +0200, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:25 PM, John W. Linville
> <linville@...driver.com> wrote:
> >> BTW, if this fuglet going to work if the driver is built modular?
> >>
> >> The idea of this things seems to be to allow arch platform code to call
> >> into it to set things.  Such calls from arch platform code are going
> >> to be "obj-y"
> >>
> >> So if this is built into the modular driver, I can't see how it
> >> can work.
> >
> > Dave is right -- these Kconfig dependencies (or lack thereof) seem
> > to be wrong.
> 
> This is why I had to put it in drivers/net/wireless/Makefile (in both
> the original patch and in the fix I sent earlier) and not in
> drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/Makefile (as it was in the fix that Dave
> was referring to).
> 
> This way it works with a modular driver.

That doesn't seem very helpful if someone selects

CONFIG_MACH_OMAP_ZOOM2=y
CONFIG_WL12XX_PLATFORM_DATA=n

or am I missing something?

John
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