Re: Depmod errors on 2.6.17.4/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1

[Matt Reuther <mreuther@umich.edu>]

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 02:56 am, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Matt Reuther wrote:
> > On Monday 10 July 2006 11:58 am, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> >> Matt Reuther wrote:
> > I ran 'make menuconfig' and I got the same warnings. Perhaps CONFIG_FB
> > needs to be part of the 'selects' line for any option that selects the
> > backlight support. I think the USB Apple Cinema display support, which I
> > set as modular, might have selected backlight. I don't need framebuffer
> > support, so I have that shut off. Here are the depmod warnings once
> > again:
>
> Yes, that's the culprit.  I've been thinking for some time to eliminate
> the framebuffer dependency from lcd/backlight.  Can you try the patch I
> sent in another thread?
>
> Tony

OK. I will give that a shot, probably this evening.

Shouldn't kconfig recursively figure out dependencies for stuff like this?

I turned on Apple Cinema support without turning on the framebuffer, but 
Cinema needed backlight, which needed framebuffer. I can see kconfig turning 
on backlight, but not checking to see what backlight needed.

There might be similar issues with snd-miro, which seems to want stuff in 
snd_cs4231, which I think I have shut off.

Thanks for your help. I try out your patch later on today, when I can get back 
to my computer.

Matt