Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:17:43 +1100 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: sound tree build failure |
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Hi Mark,
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:58:00 +0000 Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:37:32PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > The sound tree is merged before the mfd tree, and the commit that adds > > those is only in the mfd tree. So the sound tree, on its own, is > > broken. This driver will only build if you merge the mfd tree as well. > > Ah, you're doing builds after each individual merge. It might help to
Always have ...
> change the form you're using when reporting problems with partially > constructed -next - at the minute you say "Today's linux-next build > (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:" which makes it look like you're > testing the result of the full -next merge.
I was hoping that the subject of the email would help with that impression.
> > Kconfig has nothing to do with it, sorry. > > No, it does really fix the problem. As I said the driver should build > depend on a Kconfig symbol which is introduced in the MFD tree. This > means that the driver will not be built at all until MFD has been merged > since the dependencies required to select the driver will not be > satisfied unless the commits it depends on are present in the tree.
Yeah, OK, I guess you could do that.
> I'll push a patch for this shortly.
Thanks.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |