netdev - Re: powerpc allmodconfig

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Message-Id: <20081015.235844.206136521.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:58:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brice@...i.com
Cc:	dan.j.williams@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tiwai@...e.de,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, bzolnier@...il.com,
	marek.vasut@...il.com, dwmw2@...radead.org, mark.fasheh@...cle.com,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org, mchehab@...radead.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Subject: Re: powerpc allmodconfig

From: Brice Goglin <brice@...i.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:55:08 +0200

> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 22:02 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >   
> >>> drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c: In function 'dca_enabled_in_bios':
> >>> drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c:81: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpuid_eax'
> >>> drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c: In function 'system_has_dca_enabled':
> >>> drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c:91: error: implicit declaration of function 'boot_cpu_has'
> >>> drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c:91: error: 'X86_FEATURE_DCA' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >>> drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c:91: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> >>> drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c:91: error: for each function it appears in.)
> >>> drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c: In function 'ioat_dca_get_tag':
> >>> drivers/dma/ioat_dca.c:190: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpu_physical_id'
> >>>       
> >> Known issue.  I tried to ping Jeff Garzik about doing a driver bug fix run in
> >> order to fix this, but he hasn't shown any signs of life.
> >>
> >> So I'll do it myself later tonight. :-/
> >>
> >>     
> > The following seems to fix this up...
> >
> > ---snip--->
> > ixgbe, myri10ge: INTEL_IOATDMA can only be selected when X86=y
> >   
> 
> There's already a completely different fix queued in netdev patchworks
> (for myri10ge only right now, to be duplicated for Intel drivers). The
> idea is to stop having almost-unrelated drivers select each other
> directly, let people select which drivers they really want, and have
> Kconfig handle modules/builtin-stuff correctly. See
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/4506/

Right, my plan was to duplicate this for the other drivers.
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