broken dependency of drivers/mtd/maps/gpio-addr-flash.o

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Oct 10 13:18:08 EDT 2009


On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:19, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:56, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>>> It tried building the 2.6.32-rc3 kernel for i386.
>>>>
>>>> This file fails to compile if gpiolib is not configured but it is
>>>> possible to select compilation of that file without selecting gpiolib.
>>>>
>>>> I guess I do not need this file because I do not have gpio and it
>>>> really depends on it but drivers in the MTD section seemed to be
>>>> mostly enabled in distribution config and this was a new driver since
>>>> 2.6.30.
>>>
>>> patches have already been posted for the issue
>>
>> Have they? I thought the x86 gpio implementation was still broken?
>
> i'm talking about the gpio driver adding depend lines for gpio
> -mike

Not in front of a real computer right now but I think you added a dep on 
GENERIC_GPIO || GPIOLIB, but it fails on x86 when the former is enabled 
(which it always has) but not the latter (which is optional).
x86 needs _both_ defined.

-- 
dwmw2




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