On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:50:34PM -0700, Seth Forshee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:55:29AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > > Fix the dependencies of apple-gmux to prevent it from being built-in > > when one or more of its dependencies is built as a module. Otherwise it > > can fail to build due to missing symbols. > > Matthew: Are you okay with this, or is there some better way to do it? I think this is probably about as good as it gets. > I'm looking at Andreas's code for switcharoo support, and something I > want to do along with it is make apple-gmux not dependent on backlight > support (i.e. you can still build switcharoo support if > BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE is disabled). I'm assuming this patch as a > prerequisite. But things do get really monstrously ugly, so if there's a > cleaner way to enforce this that I haven't found I'd love to hear about > it. Why do you want to support that case? One of the problems we have with the kernel at present is that it's trivial to come up with non-sensical configurations. I can't think of a single case where you'd want the gmux support without also having the backlight support code. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
