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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp•com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
Cc: "heiko.carstens@de•ibm.com" <heiko.carstens@de•ibm.com>,
	Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure in the staging tree (Was: kisskb: FAILED linux-next/s390-allmodconfig/s390x Mon Jul 31, 17:24)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:41:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170811094109.2d314b7f@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170807102208.597379d4@canb.auug.org.au>

Hi all,

On Mon, 7 Aug 2017 10:22:08 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 08:29:31 +0000 Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp•com> wrote:
> >
> > On 07/31/2017 06:58 PM, Greg KH wrote:  
> > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 09:55:14AM +0000, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:    
> > >>
> > >> That's because the fsl-mc driver selects GENERIC_MSI_IRQ_DOMAIN and not
> > >> all arches implement the support for the option. I can submit a patch
> > >> that adds explicit dependencies on arches that it was build-tested (x86,
> > >> arm, powerpc, all both 32 and 64 bits) similar to how it's done here
> > >> [1]. Let me know if you're ok with this fix and i'll submit the fix to
> > >> staging.    
> > >
> > > Ugh, you should not be selecting that option, but rather depending on
> > > the option, right?    
> > 
> > All users in the kernel use "select", so i don't think so. An 
> > interesting use that adds explicit dependencies on architectures can be
> > seen here [1], in the generic code. I've proposed a patch [2] that does 
> > a similar thing for mc-bus. I think it's a good approach as it keeps 
> > things under control by explicitly specifying the architectures on which
> > the driver was compile-tested.
> > 
> > ---
> > Best Regards, Laurentiu
> > 
> > [1] 
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/pci/Kconfig#n28
> > [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9871861/  
> 
> Any resolution of this?

Ping?
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-10 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170731072425.1.95853@222023911cb9>
2017-07-31  9:35 ` linux-next: build failure in the staging tree (Was: kisskb: FAILED linux-next/s390-allmodconfig/s390x Mon Jul 31, 17:24) Stephen Rothwell
2017-07-31  9:55   ` Laurentiu Tudor
2017-07-31 15:58     ` Greg KH
2017-08-01  8:29       ` Laurentiu Tudor
2017-08-07  0:22         ` Stephen Rothwell
2017-08-10 23:41           ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2017-08-10 23:48             ` Greg KH
2017-08-11  0:04               ` Stephen Rothwell
2017-08-14 22:19                 ` Greg KH
2017-08-14 23:06                   ` Stephen Rothwell

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