On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:41:20PM -0500, Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
Mark Brown broonie@sirena.org.uk wrote:
If the driver is for is not yet in mainline I'd be more inclined to fix this by providing the relevant Kconfig dependency to exclude it
The problem is that some people may want to do modifications to this soc driver, and they won?t be able to test that their changes are valid (ex: do not break compilation).
Speaking as the person who I expect most frequently tries that I wouldn't worry about it - it's easy enough to see what's happened and there will still be errors at link time even with the extern. I'd certainly want to see the Kconfig fix as well, independantly of this.
Do the DaVinci drivers build at all in mainline, anyway? Last time I checked they required out of tree DMA patches.
I just sucessfully compiled the davinci-sffsdr soc driver (although audio seems broken for me at the moment when I actually test it).
That's good news - previously it would fail to build at all. What sort of breakage are you seeing (and what was the version you used when you developed the driver)?
[Your MUA isn't doing word wrapping, BTW.]