On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:57:14 +0100 Toralf Förster wrote: > Hello, > > does the mentioned issue (pls see below) belong to kbuild ? (plz see below) > > ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- > Subject: Re: build #350 issue for v2.6.25-rc1 in drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c > Date: Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 > From: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> > > Hi Toralf, > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:38:35 +0100, Toralf Förster wrote: > > the build with the attached .config failed, make ends with: > > ... > > LD drivers/i2c/busses/built-in.o > > CC [M] drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.o > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c: In function 'i801_probe': > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c:636: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_request_region' > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c:676: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_release_region' > > make[3]: *** [drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.o] Error 1 > > make[2]: *** [drivers/i2c/busses] Error 2 > > make[1]: *** [drivers/i2c] Error 2 > > make: *** [drivers] Error 2 > > > > The build was made with : > > $> make mrproper && make rndconfig && <tweak config file> && make oldconfig && make > > > > Here's the config: > > > > # > > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > > Note, it says: don't edit. > > > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.25-rc1 > > # Mon Feb 11 17:42:48 2008 > > # > > (...) > > # CONFIG_PCI is not set > > (...) > > # CONFIG_I2C is not set > > CONFIG_I2C_I801=m > > You set CONFIG_I2C_I801=m while PCI and I2C are both disabled. You > asked for a built breakage, you got it. randconfig set I2C_I801=m and kconfig does not know how to follow dependencies of 'select', so I'd say Yes, this is a kconfig problem. Yes, I see this one often. I wish someone were willing to try to fix it. I've looked at the source code, but I'm not willing to dive deeply into it. > You might argue that "make oldconfig" should fix the configuration file > in such a way that the dependencies are correct again. But then this is > a kconfig issue, to be reported to the kconfig maintainer, not me. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
