[PATCH 2/6] ASoC: codecs: AK4641 depends on GPIOLIB

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Oct 3 09:45:27 EDT 2011


On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 09:41:07PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 10:28:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > This driver only builds correctly on platforms that use
> > GPIOLIB. Disable it otherwise.
> 
> No, gpiolib is one implementation of the GPIO API but if platforms want
> to go and define their own that's currently OK (personally I think at
> this point we should just be converting all the stragglers over to
> gpiolib).  As things stand we shouldn't have dependencies on a
> particular implementation of the API.

Then it should depend on GENERIC_GPIO (not to be confused with GPIO_GENERIC,
the generic gpiolib driver), which is the symbol meaning that the GPIO API
is provided by something.



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