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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@linaro•org>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design•de>
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: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:06:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201207031106.42915.arnd.bergmann@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120703100049.GA8455@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de>

On Tuesday 03 July 2012, Thierry Reding wrote:
>   Show Details
>   On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:59:11AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 July 2012, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > I came up with the attached patch. What do you think? It fixes the
> > > PowerPC allyesconfig issue for me.
> > 
> > This one looks correct, but I would still do it the other way around,
> > putting the depends statements into the locations of the other drivers.
> > The main difference is that we can then independently convert the
> > remaining drivers, without having merge conflicts in the same line
> > every time we remove one of the dependencies.
> 
> The downside of that approach, however, is to make PWM override other
> settings. For instance if you have TWL6030_PWM selected and then decide
> to also select PWM, then the former will be automatically deselected to
> satisfy the dependency. I'm not sure if that's desired.

It's true that this may be confusing, but I think it's the right
approach for future multiplatform kernels. If we have e.g. a combined
omap+ux500+imx kernel, we can only have one implementation of the
PWM interfaces, and that should be the new one.

It's less clear for the other architectures. Maybe a mixed approach
is better there, making CONFIG_PWM depend on !MACH_JZ4740 &&
!PUV3_NB0916 && !BLACKFIN, but letting the remaining ARM versions
of the PWM code depend on !PWM.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03 11:06 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
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 [this message]
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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