Re: mailbox_mach dependency problem

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On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 02:08:58AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Felipe Balbi <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 05:47:57PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> The easiest solution would be to make mailbox_mach built-in when
> >> mailbox is configured, however, mailbox_mach needs mailbox to be
> >> loaded.
> >
> > generally platform_device instantiation isn't compiled as a module. The
> > patch below should probably help but I didn't test it.
> 
> Yeah, but as I said above... that doesn't work:
> 
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/built-in.o: In function `omap2_mbox_probe':
> /data/public/dev/omap/linux-omap/arch/arm/mach-omap2/mailbox.c:389:
> undefined reference to `omap_mbox_register'
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/built-in.o: In function `omap2_mbox_remove':
> /data/public/dev/omap/linux-omap/arch/arm/mach-omap2/mailbox.c:439:
> undefined reference to `omap_mbox_unregister'

now I see the problem. You shouldn't put that kind of stuff on the
driver. The driver can be built as a module but the device will probably
be built-in. You'll need a more intrusive change to fix that, I guess.

-- 
balbi
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