Re: linux-next: rr tree build failure

[Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>]

Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb Rusty Russell:
> On Wednesday 25 June 2008 17:35:54 Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb Stephen Rothwell:
> > > Hi Rusty,
> > >
> > > Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig (CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y,
> > > CONFIG_VIRTIO=m)) failed like this:
> >
> > That is interesting. VIRTIO_CONSOLE (=y) has a depends on VIRTIO(m). Seems
> > that Kconfig thinks that m is enough to fulfil a depends on.
> >
> > Rusty, what do you think about the following fixup patch? (please fold it
> > into the other one):
> 
> Hmm, prefer either tristate "Virtio console" or "depends on VIRTIO = y". 
> select has issues in that it ignores dependencies.

OK.

---
 drivers/char/Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ config HVC_XEN
 	  Xen virtual console device driver
 
 config VIRTIO_CONSOLE
-	bool "Virtio console"
+	tristate "Virtio console"
 	depends on VIRTIO
 	select HVC_DRIVER
 	help