From: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@gmx.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/21] staging: nvec: allow modular build
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:55:48 +0200
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On Tuesday 23 April 2013 21:41:03 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2013, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 April 2013 18:30:46 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > The serio code can be a loadable module, which in turn means that nvec
> > > also has to be a module, so mark it as "tristate" in Kconfig.
> > 
> > oh, I didn't saw this randconfig error posting. NVEC isn't prepared for
> > modularized builds yet (it's on the TODO list though). So better say
> > SERIO=y here. Looking a bit closer, there is other stuff which can also
> > be a module (GPIOLIB, I2C, ...) so these also need a =y.
> 
> What is the problem with building it as a module? It looks all fine in that
> regard.

It builds, but I haven't tried out it yet. At least the mfd children need to 
unregister the event notifier I guess. Anyway, I have no time to test this 
now, so I prefer to force =y for the dependencies for now.

> I also did not see any problems with the other symbols, but that may be
> because they get turned on as built-in even in allmodconfig. Marking it
> as tristate certainly avoids the problem altogether.
> 
> > Should a post a patch?
> 
> If you have follow-on patches, they need to go on top now, since Greg
> already took this patch.

arrr, I wonder why Greg thought that a 4 minute review time is enough :-(
I'll try to post a patch tomorrow then.

Marc

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