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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:41:03 +0200 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@....de> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/21] staging: nvec: allow modular build On Tuesday 23 April 2013, Marc Dietrich wrote: > On Tuesday 23 April 2013 18:30:46 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > The serio code can be a loadable module, which in turn means that nvec > > also has to be a module, so mark it as "tristate" in Kconfig. > > oh, I didn't saw this randconfig error posting. NVEC isn't prepared for > modularized builds yet (it's on the TODO list though). So better say SERIO=y > here. Looking a bit closer, there is other stuff which can also be a module > (GPIOLIB, I2C, ...) so these also need a =y. What is the problem with building it as a module? It looks all fine in that regard. I also did not see any problems with the other symbols, but that may be because they get turned on as built-in even in allmodconfig. Marking it as tristate certainly avoids the problem altogether. > Should a post a patch? If you have follow-on patches, they need to go on top now, since Greg already took this patch. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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