Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

From: Mark Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:41:50 +0000

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:29:54AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> > diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig b/sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig
> > index 50693c867e71..ee5f36b9c787 100644
> > --- a/sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig
> > +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/Kconfig
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ menu "CODEC drivers"
> >  config SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS
> >  	tristate "Build all ASoC CODEC drivers"
> >  	depends on COMPILE_TEST
> > +	depends on !PPC
> >  	select SND_SOC_88PM860X if MFD_88PM860X
> >  	select SND_SOC_L3
> >  	select SND_SOC_AB8500_CODEC if ABX500_CORE

> Suppressing this whole is an overreaction, IMO.  It should suffice
> just to disable compile-testing Intel driver.

Please send patches and reports to maintainers :(  I agree that this is
an absurdly wide change.

> diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/Kconfig b/sound/soc/intel/Kconfig
> index 803f95e40679..d854cd66e090 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/intel/Kconfig
> +++ b/sound/soc/intel/Kconfig
> @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ config SND_SOC_INTEL_SST
>  	tristate
>  	select SND_SOC_INTEL_SST_ACPI if ACPI
>  	depends on (X86 || COMPILE_TEST)
> +	# FIXME: a part of compress API is broken for PPC
> +	depends on !PPC

Why is an Intel CPU thing being enabled by SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS?  I'm also
unclear why this will help when we're selecting in the drivers so their
dependencies will be ignored.