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SubjectRe: [PATCH] THERMAL must not select HWMON
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:43:01 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:37:58 +0100
> Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:21:12AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >
> > [ select forces HWMON to yes even if deps are never applicable ]
> >
> > > Yes, that's a known & longstanding problem (that select does not
> > > follow/honor dependencies).
> >
> > Okay.
> >
> > So THERMAL can't select HWMON, instead it needs to do a proper depends.
> >
> > Bastian
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
> > Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
> > index 3ab313e..394912c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/Kconfig
> > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
> >
> > menuconfig THERMAL
> > bool "Generic Thermal sysfs driver"
> > - select HWMON
> > + depends on HWMON
> > default y
> > help
> > Generic Thermal Sysfs driver offers a generic mechanism for
>
> Sorry, but we have insufficient information here.
>
> Presumably it fixes some build error, but the changelog should tell us (at
> least) what that error was, why it occurs and how the patch fixes it.

Bastian can report if he actually had a build error or not.

What he reported on the linux-kbuild mailing list is that
THERMAL selects HWMON. However, HWMON depends on HAS_IOMEM, but
arch/s390 does not enable/support HAS_IOMEM. Bang.

> Often (for bugfixes) I'll go off and find this stuff out from the mailing
> list and put together a proper description. I also need to do this so I
> can work out whether the patch is needed in 2.6.25 or -stable. But I can't
> even find any reference to the original problem in the lkml archives.


---
~Randy


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