Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:31:17 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFC] irqchip or mfd/tps65217: fix link error |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Building tps65217 as a loadable module (as done in allmodconfig) > now fails after we started calling irq_set_parent(): > > ERROR: "irq_set_parent" [drivers/mfd/tps65217.ko] undefined! > > The two obvious workarounds are either to force the driver > to be built-in, or to make that symbol exported to modules. > > As it's not clear to me if either of them would be acceptable, > I'm sending both of them here, please comment on which one > you want to have, or whether the driver should handle this > differently and not call irq_set_parent() at all.
The question is why it needs to call that. But if it's justified, then I'm not opposed to export it.
Thanks,
tglx
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