Subject: Re: linux-next: mfd tree build failure

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 02:05:40 +1000

Hi Ian,

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:39:54 +0100 ian <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> I'd have expected the other TMIO drivers to fail too.
> 
> get_irq_data is defined in linux/irq.h only if 
> 
> CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQs is set and you arent on S390 (so why doesnt S390
> fail?)
> 
> I dont see this as a big problem. As far as Im concerned, all the TMIO
> drivers can depend on CONFIG_ARM.
> 
> It may not be a bad idea to add CONFIG_MFD_TMIO_SUBDEVICE so that TMIO
> sub device drivers can only be selected when TMIO cores are selected.
> This would neatly fix the earlier problem, rather than making al lthe
> subdevices CONFIG_ARM.

It'd be real nice if someone did a patch to that effect :-)

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    [email-masked]
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/