On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 03:25:09PM +0100, Josh Boyer wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> The commit below seems to have made the Tegra DRM driver a bool option >> instead of tristate: >> >> commit dee8268f8fb218c9e9b604a40f7dbdd395e910f9 >> Author: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wed Oct 9 10:32:49 2013 +0200 >> >> drm/tegra: Move driver to DRM tree >> >> In order to make subsystem-wide changes easier, move the Tegra DRM >> driver back into the DRM tree. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> That means you can't build the driver as a module. Was this intended? >> The changelog doesn't mention anything about that and the existing >> help text on the option seems to imply it should be buildable as a >> module. > > This was intended yes. And it wasn't really a change at all, since prior > to the commit you mention above the DRM driver was always built into the > host1x driver. That's why I didn't think it necessary to mention it in > the commit message. > > I have some patches queued for 3.14 to enable the driver to be built as > a module. There are some dependencies such as symbols that need to be > exported so that the modules can be linked, so it'll require some amount > of coordination to make that work out within one release cycle, but I'm > hopeful that we can do it. OK. Thanks for the detailed reply. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
