Re: [PATCH update9] drivers: add LCD support

["Miguel Ojeda" <maxextreme@gmail.com>]

On 12/21/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:10:00 +0100
> Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrew, another one for drivers-add-lcd-support saga. Thanks you.
>
> This patch appears to be against some private tree of yours, not against -mm.
>
> Which tells me that it hasn't been tested against the patches in -mm and,
> more importantly, that probably nobody is testing the patches which are
> in -mm.
>
> I'd prefer that you do so, please - there's always a possibility that the
> patches got mangled in flight, or that some other pending change in -mm
> means that the patches work in your tree, but won't work when I merge them
> up.
>
> Thanks.
>

On 12/21/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:10:00 +0100
> Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig
> > @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ config KS0108_DELAY
> >  config CFAG12864B
> >         tristate "CFAG12864B LCD"
> >         depends on X86
> > +       depends on FB
> >         depends on KS0108
> >         default n
> >         ---help---
> > @@ -74,6 +75,8 @@ config CFAG12864B
> >           For help about how to wire your LCD to the parallel port,
> >           check Documentation/auxdisplay/cfag12864b
> >
> > +         Depends on the x86 arch and the framebuffer support.
>
> heh, that was clever.
>
> scripts/kconfig/conf -m arch/i386/Kconfig
> drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig:81:warning: multi-line strings not supported
> drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig:78: unknown option "Depends"
> drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig:80: unknown option "The"
> drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig:81: unknown option "It"
> drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig:82: unknown option "of"
> drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig:84: unknown option "To"
> drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig:85: unknown option "the"
> drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig:87: unknown option "If"
> make[1]: *** [allmodconfig] Error 1
>
> you broke Roman's parser.
>
>
> Oh, your patch used spaces where tabs should have been.  Please don't do
> that.
>

Hum, I have checked the patch again and it applies cleanly against
2.6.20-rc1-mm1. Moreover, it works for me and I see I didn't make any
mistake.

...?

Oh. Right. All tabs were converted to spaces when copying it from the
console to the mail client... Sorry about that.

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Miguel Ojeda
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