Re: 2.6.30-rc3 video/i915 build error

[yakui_zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 09:57 +0800, Len Brown wrote:

Hi, Len
    In my test if VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL is not selected, there exists the
following failure:
    >drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_video_bus_put_devices':
    >video.c:(.text+0x41307): undefined reference to
`video_output_unregister'
    >drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_video_bus_add':
video.c:(.text+0x43024): undefined reference to `video_output_register'
    >make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

    In order to fix this issue we must select the VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL
when ACPI_VIDEO is selected. 
    I add the following content in drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
    >select ACPI_VIDEO if ACPI 
    >select VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL if ACPI_VIDEO
    
    And then it will report that there exits recursive dependency:
ACPI_VIDEO -> VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL -> ACPI_VIDEO

    In fact in current kernel there exists the following dependency:
    ACPI_VIDEO depends on VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL.

    If we delete the ACPI_VIDEO configuration in drivers/acpi/Kconfig,
we can't select the acpi_video configuration when i915 is not used.

    So IMO it is not very good to change the dependency. After changing
the dependency between ACPI_VIDEO and I915, the new issue about
dependency is triggered. 

    Thanks.
> 
> thanks,
> Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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