linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] ASoC: codecs: AK4641 depends on GPIOLIB

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Message-ID: <2726393.3Oc3SrGyN4@wuerfel>
Date:	Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:53:24 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Artamonow <mad_soft@...ox.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] ASoC: codecs: AK4641 depends on GPIOLIB

On Sunday 02 October 2011 21:41:07 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 10:28:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > This driver only builds correctly on platforms that use
> > GPIOLIB. Disable it otherwise.
> 
> No, gpiolib is one implementation of the GPIO API but if platforms want
> to go and define their own that's currently OK (personally I think at
> this point we should just be converting all the stragglers over to
> gpiolib).  As things stand we shouldn't have dependencies on a
> particular implementation of the API.

Thanks for the explanation!

Is there any other symbol that I can test then?

I noticed that a lot of places use 'depends on GPIOLIB' or
'#ifdef CONFIG_GPIOLIB', are those usually wrong, too?

	Arnd
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