Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758362AbXKAJCJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:02:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753973AbXKAJB5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:01:57 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:51341 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753565AbXKAJB4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:01:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:01:42 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Trent Piepho Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linux Kernel Mailing list , Randy Dunlap , Johannes Stezenbach Subject: Re: [build bug, 2.6.24-rc1] CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m & CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7146_VV=y Message-ID: <20071101090142.GA13009@elte.hu> References: <20071026073736.GA24172@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7-deb -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1248 Lines: 32 * Trent Piepho wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > the attached config (generated via make randconfig) fails to build due > > to the combination of these config entries: > > > > CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m > > CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7146_VV=y > > > > i found no obvious Kconfig way to force VIDEO_SAA7146_VV to be modular > > when VIDEO_DEV is modular - is there a good solution for this? > > I guess you didn't like my reply to your first message about this? > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/7/145 > > kbuild support for modules used as libraries is really poor. The only > way to do is use select on the library module, and then have all the > dependencies of the selectee be included in the selector, which must > be done recursively so that any modules selected by the selectee have > their dependencies added to the selector. any patch for me to try? This bug is blocking automated randconfig build-testing quite frequently so it's quite a showstopper. Ingo - 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/