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Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:02:30 +0100
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	"J . German Rivera" <German.Rivera@...escale.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: fsl-mc: Do not allow building as a module

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 02:22:22PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
> 
> This driver uses functionality (MSI IRQ domain) whose symbols aren't
> exported, and hence the modular build fails. While arguably there might
> be reasons to make these symbols available to modules, that change would
> be fairly involved and the set of exported functions should be carefully
> auditioned. Fix the build failure for now by marking the driver boolean.
> 
> Cc: J. German Rivera <German.Rivera@...escale.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Sorry for being pushy, but this has had allmodconfig builds broken in
linux-next for a couple of days now. The driver has been marked BROKEN
now in linux-next to remedy that, but having proper fixes seems better
than that.

Thierry

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