On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 06:16:19PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:45:00PM -0800, Ramirez Luna, Omar wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Felipe Contreras > >> <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> Again, I'm totally confused as to _WHY_ this needs to be y. What is > >> >> causing this oops without it? If an oops is happening, then shouldn't > >> >> this be a strict dependancy? Why allow it to be disabled at all if it > >> >> can break your box if you don't enable it? > >> > > >> > It's not an oops, it's a warning, and again, it depends on the > >> > firmware being used. We don't have control over that, and we have no > >> > way to detect if this feature is there. It's up to the user. > >> > >> I have been thinking more into it, how about looking for a WDT symbol > >> inside the baseimage to decide whether to turn ON/OFF WDT3, this would > >> mean that the code is always compiled in, but the decision to turn it > >> on/off is made at runtime. > > > > I totally don't understand, why not just silence the warning properly > > then? > > The warning doesn't come from the driver, and AFAIK it's a valid > warning. Now, I haven't explored the code, so I don't know what's > going on, I just know Omar said this fixes the warning, and that > there's no easy way around it. > > > I fail to understand why this warning happens, > > I don't know either, I just know enabling TIDSPBRIDGE_WDT3 fixes it. Ok, I suggest someone get to the root cause of this before we change anything, although some better Kconfig text would be nice to have to document the existing issues. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
