Build failure: shmobile drm driver references backlight symbols

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Oct 29 13:20:52 EDT 2013


Hi Russell,

On Tuesday 29 October 2013 10:04:13 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> My build system picked up on this failure:
> 
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `shmob_drm_backlight_init':
> fmc-chardev.c:(.text+0x9f2d0): undefined reference to
> `backlight_device_register' drivers/built-in.o: In function
> `shmob_drm_backlight_exit':
> fmc-chardev.c:(.text+0x9f370): undefined reference to
> `backlight_device_unregister'
> 
> which is cuased by drivers/gpu/drm/shmobile/shmob_drm_backlight.c being
> built without the backlight dependency being enabled.  It looks like
> the backlight dependency is a hard requirement, so needs ot be added
> to the Kconfig entry for this driver in some way.

Thank you for the report. I'll send a fix.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart




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