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SubjectRe: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (pwm tree related)
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 07:20:21PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 30 June 2012, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > I hadn't thought about the allyesconfig case yet. Adding a "depends on
> > !HAVE_PWM" to the PWM symbol should work and is the easiest fix to this
> > kind of problem while other PWM legacy API implementations are ported to
> > the PWM subsystem.
> >
> > Sascha, Arnd (Cc'ed): what do you think?
> >
> > I don't know if I'll get enough time to test this over the weekend but I
> > should get to it when I'm back in the office on Monday.
> >
> You cannot depend on a symbol in the same place that provides it -- that
> would be a recursive dependency (or a paradox).

The PWM symbol doesn't provide HAVE_PWM.

> I think that all the drivers that are not converted to the common PWM
> layer yet should depend on not enabling the common code. Once they
> are all moved over, that dependency will go away.

Right. That's exactly what I meant. If we add depends on !HAVE_PWM to
the PWM symbol that should result in both options conflicting, and
therefore not being built at the same time.

Thierry
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