Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:55:56 -0800 | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_NLS=m resulting in undefined reference to utf16s_to_utf8s causing build failure |
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:23:55 -0500 (EST) Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote: > > So there's no other ACPI code that depends on this function? I'd hate > > to make PCI depend on NLS, so assuming ACPI doesn't need it (in which > > case the select or depend should be there), I guess it should be pulled > > into a common file that will always be included. > > No, nothing in the ACPI code uses utf16s_to_utf8s. > > I don't know anything about NLS, but it appears to be > something that file systems (befs, cifs, fat, hfs, isofs, jfs, etc) > use to to support native languages. > > BTW. I don't understand why pci-label.o appears twice above. > It used to be just the 2nd one, that depends on CONFIG_DMI.
Ok, I'll drop this patch for now then since I haven't seen a fix yet and need to get Linus the rest of the changes.
Thanks, Jesse
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