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Message-ID: <20111108201507.GA16883@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:15:07 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.2-rc1

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:13:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Alessandro Suardi
> <alessandro.suardi@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dell laptop support (and I'd suspect other drivers using LED support)
> >  doesn't build with undefined LED-related functions, as in:
> >
> > ERROR: "led_classdev_unregister" [drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.ko]
> > undefined!
> > ERROR: "led_classdev_register" [drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.ko] undefined!
> > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> > make: *** [modules] Error 2
> >
> > It's enough to configure NEW_LEDS (unneeded in 3.1.0) to allow the build to go
> >  through; maybe NEW_LEDS should be auto-selected in Kconfig by drivers that
> >  make use of led_classdev_* functions ?
> 
> Yeah, that sounds like the right fix. There are a lot of "select
> NEW_LEDS" around already, but apparently not the Dell driver.

Sorry, missed that change. Yes, that sounds completely reasonable.

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