Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:12:05 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: Depmod errors on 2.6.17.4/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1 |
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Matt Reuther wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 02:56 am, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >> Matt Reuther wrote: >>> On Monday 10 July 2006 11:58 am, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >>>> Matt Reuther wrote: >>> I ran 'make menuconfig' and I got the same warnings. Perhaps CONFIG_FB >>> needs to be part of the 'selects' line for any option that selects the >>> backlight support. I think the USB Apple Cinema display support, which I >>> set as modular, might have selected backlight. I don't need framebuffer >>> support, so I have that shut off. Here are the depmod warnings once >>> again: >> Yes, that's the culprit. I've been thinking for some time to eliminate >> the framebuffer dependency from lcd/backlight. Can you try the patch I >> sent in another thread? >> >> Tony > > OK. I will give that a shot, probably this evening. > > Shouldn't kconfig recursively figure out dependencies for stuff like this?
'select' doesn't. So does 'depends on'. Anyway, I consider it wasteful to also compile in fb when backlight/lcd is the only one needed. So try instead the other patch (Statically link the framebuffer notification functions).
> > I turned on Apple Cinema support without turning on the framebuffer, but > Cinema needed backlight, which needed framebuffer. I can see kconfig turning > on backlight, but not checking to see what backlight needed.
Yes, known problem with select.
> > There might be similar issues with snd-miro, which seems to want stuff in > snd_cs4231, which I think I have shut off. > > Thanks for your help. I try out your patch later on today, when I can get back > to my computer. >
Thanks for the report too.
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