Subject: Re: linux-next: acpi tree build failure

From: Len Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:17:29 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Len,
> 
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> 
>   GEN     /scratch/sfr/powerpc_ppc64_defconfig/Makefile
> drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:353:error: found recursive dependency: EEEPC_LAPTOP -> HOTPLUG_PCI -> EEEPC_LAPTOP
> 
> Caused by commit 6af05c22969dce2776375953131b56e9f4282848 ("eeepc-laptop:
> Register as a pci-hotplug device") interacting with commit
> 44b3615b8cb3b016a49eb7ef4236e77a77793cec ("eeepc-laptop: Fix build
> failure with HOTPLUG_PCI && !SYSFS") from Linus' tree.  Commit 6af05c2
> from the acpi tree is the same as commit
> 2b121bc262fa03c94e653b2d44356c2f86c1bcdc in Linus' tree that 44b3615b is
> fixing, so I have reverted the drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig part of
> 6af05c2 for today.

Sorry I broke your build, Stephen.

This was an obsolete patch in the acpi-test tree.
it should be better now.   Thanks for working around it.

Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center