Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:07:55 +0900 | From | Paul Mundt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mfd/wm831x-irq: Convert to new irq_chip functions and fix build failure |
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 02:39:55AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Mark Brown wrote: > > On 9 Dec 2010, at 23:34, Peter Huewe wrote: > > > This patch fixes a build failure[1] by converting the driver to use the > > > new irq_chip functions. > > > > The driver has already been converted; if this is required we should > > just backport the relevant change (mfd: Convert WM831x to new irq_ > > interrupt methods) in order to avoid merge issues with current code > > rather than reimplementing. However, at this stage in 2.6.37 I don't > > think that's a good idea. > > I think it is. > > # git grep GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED arch/ > arch/sh/Kconfig: select GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED > > Though the question remains, whether this driver is actually used with > sh platforms. If yes, then pushing the already existing change to > Linus is the right way to go. If no, adding a "depends on !SH" is the > simple fix to prevent this allmodconfig fallout. Another option is to > ignore it :) I leave that up to Paul. > There are no current SH boards that are using this MFD, but there's certainly no technical reason for why there can't be. I'd rather avoid an artificial !SH dependency, but adding in something like
depends on !GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
for .37 would be fine. We do build randconfigs and so on quite regularly, so it would obviously be nice not to have this break the build.
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