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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design•de>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@linaro•org>,
	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: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 08:11:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120703061115.GA27989@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120703154318.9e32d4a490c0b32e7d955ca4@canb.auug.org.au>

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On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 03:43:18PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 08:56:39 +0200 Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design•de> wrote:
> >
> > But if we make the new PWM symbol conflict with HAVE_PWM, then it'll do
> > the right thing for any of the legacy PWM implementations, without
> > having to track them down. Furthermore it'll also keep the legacy
> > version by default and not allow the generic one to be enabled in that
> > case. This is more likely to cause less side-effects than the other way
> > around.
> > 
> > > One question though: if the generic pwm implementation does not set
> > > HAVE_PWM, how can a driver check its presence?
> > 
> > The driver depends on PWM. HAVE_PWM is the symbol for the legacy
> > implementations, while PWM is the new PWM API symbol.
> 
> I am still getting the mutliple definition errors from my powerpc
> allyesconfg build.
> 
> $ grep PWM .config
> CONFIG_TWL6030_PWM=y
> CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_PWM=y
> CONFIG_PWM=y

I don't see how that can happen. If you have CONFIG_TWL6030_PWM=y, then
you should also have CONFIG_HAVE_PWM=y, which would in turn conflict
with CONFIG_PWM=y.

I'll have to fetch a powerpc toolchain and try to reproduce this.

Thierry

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03  6:11 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
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 [this message]
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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