From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ppsw-51.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.151]:51275 "EHLO ppsw-51.csi.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755054Ab1CHOLs (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:11:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4D763956.3040304@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:12:38 +0000 From: Jonathan Cameron MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hennerich, Michael" CC: "linux-iio@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Build iio as built in rather than module. References: <4D763507.2090003@cam.ac.uk> <544AC56F16B56944AEC3BD4E3D59177133FA8775EF@LIMKCMBX1.ad.analog.com> In-Reply-To: <544AC56F16B56944AEC3BD4E3D59177133FA8775EF@LIMKCMBX1.ad.analog.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-iio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On 03/08/11 13:59, Hennerich, Michael wrote: > Jonathan Cameron wrote on 2011-03-08: >> Just a heads up. Right now on a stargate 2 (pxa) I can't boot if IIO >> is built in rather than the module I normally use. >> >> Chasing down exactly why now. Annoyingly this is occurring before any >> messages at all come out on the serial console so may take a while to >> track down. >> >> Jonathan > > Works ok on Blackfin - however one thing I noticed a while ago. > In case IIO device drivers are build statically into the kernel, > udev/mdev and friends doesn't generate the device nodes on the fly. > False alarm on the booting kernel issue. One of those stupid cases of commenting out one line taking the image size down a tiny tiny and letting it fit into the partition I was flashing it to. The lack of device nodes is probably to do with missing some of those magic udev related macro calls. Jonathan