linux-kernel - Re: [build failure] Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 2.6.39-rc1

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Message-ID: <20110321165827.GG2570@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:58:27 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Zeng Zhaoming <b32542@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: [build failure] Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 2.6.39-rc1

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 05:49:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> > That's because the driver code is trivially broken, though - the build
> > test has identified a flaw in the driver which we should fix.

> Trivially broken how? Your mail in the original thread, if i read it right, 
> only claimed that it depends on CONFIG_REGULATOR being present while ideally it 
> should be invariant to the value of CONFIG_REGULATOR:

That's the breakage, yes.  It should be very straightforward to make the
driver build no matter how CONFIG_REGULATOR is set.

>  | Since the regulator on the device is optional this isn't the best fix, the 
>  | code should be updated to support building without regulator.

> If there is some *other* bug there as well then of course it should be fixed 
> instead of worked around.

There's no other bug relevant to this issue.
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