From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764593AbYD3UCc (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:02:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759917AbYD3UCY (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:02:24 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:53604 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758596AbYD3UCX (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:02:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:01:39 +0300 From: Adrian Bunk To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: mkrufky@linuxtv.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] dvb: build failure fix Message-ID: <20080430200139.GG29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <20080430192829.GF29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <4818C91E.8070307@linuxtv.org> <20080430165214.10b793b4@gaivota> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080430165214.10b793b4@gaivota> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 04:52:14PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:31:42 -0400 > mkrufky@linuxtv.org wrote: > > > > Are there actually reports from users running into this problem? > > No. > > Yet, the configuration may be valid. If you have a board with tda8290, it > _will_ need another chip, like tda827x. > > In the past, both tda8290 and tda827x were handled by the same driver, and > worked for analog only. > > So, IMO, this is a regression. >... drivers/media/ is the part of the kernel with the most fragile kconfig constructs. And we are talking about bringing a solution into -stable that has never and will never be in mainline. A compile error in a configuration without practical relevance isn't a huge problem, and I'd vote for leaving -stable unchanged. > Cheers, > Mauro cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed