Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757235AbXFVOW6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:22:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754061AbXFVOWu (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:22:50 -0400 Received: from outbound-cpk.frontbridge.com ([207.46.163.16]:44800 "EHLO outbound1-cpk-R.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753849AbXFVOWt (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:22:49 -0400 X-BigFish: VP X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 163.181.251.22;Service: EHS X-Server-Uuid: 8C3DB987-180B-4465-9446-45C15473FD3E Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:23:01 +0200 From: "Andreas Herrmann" To: "Jan Engelhardt" cc: "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" , "Roman Zippel" , "Oliver Neukum" , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, video4linux-list@redhat.com, "Toralf =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=F6rster?=" , luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it, "LKML" Subject: Re: Kconfig troubles when using menuconfig - Was: [patch]Re: [linux-usb-devel] linux-2.6.22-rc5-gf1518a0 build #300 failed in zc0301_core.c Message-ID: <20070622142301.GT5193@alberich.amd.com> References: <200706211117.55908.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> <200706211231.53898.luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> <200706211326.45031.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> <200706211350.14526.oneukum@suse.de> <1182518566.14289.20.camel@gaivota> <20070622134605.GN5193@alberich.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jun 2007 14:21:53.0424 (UTC) FILETIME=[AE574900:01C7B4D8] X-WSS-ID: 6A65048E1S41143217-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1373 Lines: 40 On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 03:51:34PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jun 22 2007 15:46, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I am not sure whether it is related or not > >But if you select USB as module but build your v4l_usb driver > >into the kernel you also get compile errors. > >Attached is a patch which will prevent this by changing the menuconfig > >from bool to tristate. > > A config option that is not referenced in the Makefile... > should it really be a tristate? In my opinion, changing it > to tristate is just a workaround, but I don't know kconfig > well enough to make bool Do The Right Thing in these situations myself :( dito Same problem occurred with "menuconfig NET_PCMCIA". See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118244569131373 Regards, Andreas -- Operating | AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG, System | Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Germany Research | Register Court Dresden: HRA 4896, General Partner authorized Center | to represent: AMD Saxony LLC (Wilmington, Delaware, US) (OSRC) | General Manager of AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/