Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:39:33 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option |
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:49:01PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote: > MISC_DEVICES option alone does not select any kernel code and can cause dependency build warnings, such as: > > warning: (KS8851 && AX88796_93CX6 && RTL8180 && RTL8187 && ADM8211 && RT2400PCI && RT2500PCI && RT61PCI && RT2800PCI && R8187SE) selects EEPROM_93CX6 which has unmet direct dependencies (MISC_DEVICES) > > Remove MISC_DEVICES option so that any dependency on this symbol is avoided.
Are you sure that this isn't getting confused with the drivers/char/misc.c interface instead of the "throw a bunch of randome drivers into drivers/misc/" issue?
Why would anything ever want to select MISC_DEVICES? What happens if you just remove that select line from the Kconfig?
thanks,
greg k-h
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