[PATCH 1/2] staging: fsl-mc: Do not allow building as a module

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Feb 19 04:36:35 UTC 2016


On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 03:02:30PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 02:22:22PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> > 
> > This driver uses functionality (MSI IRQ domain) whose symbols aren't
> > exported, and hence the modular build fails. While arguably there might
> > be reasons to make these symbols available to modules, that change would
> > be fairly involved and the set of exported functions should be carefully
> > auditioned. Fix the build failure for now by marking the driver boolean.
> > 
> > Cc: J. German Rivera <German.Rivera at freescale.com>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus/Kconfig | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Sorry for being pushy, but this has had allmodconfig builds broken in
> linux-next for a couple of days now. The driver has been marked BROKEN
> now in linux-next to remedy that, but having proper fixes seems better
> than that.

Sorry for the delay, now merged, thanks.

greg k-h


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