On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:50:40AM -0800, David Brown wrote: > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> Without this device, the PMIC drivers won't work, regulators can't be > >> turned on, and most of the other devices won't work. I can try if it > >> can still be made a module, and it might be good at exercising the > >> deferred probe mechanism. > > > > If the PMIC drivers are dependant on the symbols in this module, there > > should not be any problems, right? > > The PMIC drivers directly will be, but the users of gpios/irqs and > regulators coming from the PMIC will only depend on the generic APIs for > this. In theory, the deferred probe should handle this, and it might > be useful for testing. > > I can allow it to be a module, although I don't picture that really > being a useful configuration. It will allow this to get multi-arch build testing at the very least, a very valuable thing as time goes on. You can always specify this as 'Y' in your defconfig for your board. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
