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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design•de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@linaro•org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix•de>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (pwm tree related)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:41:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120630194139.GA24300@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201206301920.21158.arnd.bergmann@linaro.org>

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On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 07:20:21PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 30 June 2012, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > I hadn't thought about the allyesconfig case yet. Adding a "depends on
> > !HAVE_PWM" to the PWM symbol should work and is the easiest fix to this
> > kind of problem while other PWM legacy API implementations are ported to
> > the PWM subsystem.
> > 
> > Sascha, Arnd (Cc'ed): what do you think?
> > 
> > I don't know if I'll get enough time to test this over the weekend but I
> > should get to it when I'm back in the office on Monday.
> > 
> You cannot depend on a symbol in the same place that provides it -- that
> would be a recursive dependency (or a paradox).

The PWM symbol doesn't provide HAVE_PWM.

> I think that all the drivers that are not converted to the common PWM
> layer yet should depend on not enabling the common code. Once they
> are all moved over, that dependency will go away.

Right. That's exactly what I meant. If we add depends on !HAVE_PWM to
the PWM symbol that should result in both options conflicting, and
therefore not being built at the same time.

Thierry

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-30 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-29  7:48 linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (pwm tree related) Stephen Rothwell
2012-06-30 18:10 ` Thierry Reding
2012-06-30 19:20   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-06-30 19:41     ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2012-06-30 20:12       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-01  6:56         ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-03  5:43           ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-07-03  6:11             ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-03  6:18               ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-07-03  6:23                 ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-03  8:06                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-03  8:11                     ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-03  8:59                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-03 10:00                         ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-03 11:06                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-07-03 11:14                             ` Thierry Reding
2012-07-03  8:23     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-07-03  9:00       ` Arnd Bergmann

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