From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: zippel@linux-m68k.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
GCS <gcs@lsc.hu>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc4
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 01:00:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040218000028.GR1308@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402171503150.2154@home.osdl.org>
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:11:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > No, I2C_ALGOBIT depends on I2C.
> >
> > > That's really what the true dependency is, logically.
> >
> > Below is a suggested fix that lets FB_RADEON_I2C select I2C.
>
> Thinking about it, this does the wrong thing for _another_ reason.
>
> Basically, if you compile radeonfb as a module, and say "Y" to RADEON_I2C,
> then that should _not_ force I2C to be built-in to the kernel, but that
> is in fact exactly what this would force.
>...
I don't claim to fully understand the 2.6 Kconfig language, but
according to my testings my patch does exactly what you describe.
> Linus
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-18 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-17 3:51 Linus Torvalds
2004-02-17 6:19 ` Felix Seeger
2004-02-17 8:54 ` Martin Diehl
2004-02-17 9:27 ` Martin Diehl
2004-02-17 15:39 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-17 16:21 ` Linux 2.6.3-rc4 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-02-17 18:45 ` Linux 2.6.3-rc4 GCS
2004-02-17 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-17 20:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-02-17 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-17 22:59 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-02-17 23:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-17 23:37 ` Radeon issue on x86 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-18 0:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-18 0:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-18 0:00 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2004-02-18 1:28 ` Linux 2.6.3-rc4 Roman Zippel
2004-02-18 0:39 ` Roman Zippel
2004-02-18 1:06 ` Roman Zippel
2004-02-18 2:45 ` Roman Zippel
2004-02-18 2:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-18 0:15 ` Roman Zippel
2004-02-18 0:21 ` GCS
2004-02-17 18:56 ` Jonathan Brown
2004-02-17 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-18 10:18 ` Andreas Happe
2004-02-18 4:06 ` Stephen Rothwell
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