linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] mfd: tps65912 needs MFD

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Message-Id: <20110622114647.0e8c1ec7.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:46:47 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Margarita Olaya <magi@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] mfd: tps65912 needs MFD_CORE

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:29:15 +0100 Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:06:15AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
> > 
> > MFD_TPS65912 should select MFD_CORE so that mfd interfaces are
> > available to it.  This fixes a build error when MFD_CORE=m and
> > MFD_TPS65912=y (and no other TPS65912 kconfig symbols are enabled,
> > so no other select MFD_CORE was done).
> 
> I posted a better patch for this earlier today - the bigger problem here
> is that as with other MFD cores MFD_TPS65912 shouldn't be directly
> selectable at all as it can't do anything useful without a bus
> interface.

Good.  Hopefully such a kconfig won't be possible in the
future then.

---
~Randy
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