Re: 2.6.30-rc3 video/i915 build error

Len Brown
2009-04-24T01:57:22Z

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, yakui_zhao wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 03:50 +0800, Len Brown wrote:
>
> Hi, Len
> The issue can be fixed by the patch from Matthew.
> In Matthew's patch the acpi video is also selected when the i915 is
> compiled as builtin-kernel module.
> But IMO this is not very good. From the Kconfig file we know that
> acpi video driver depends on the following configuration:
> BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE && VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL
>
> If the VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL/BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE is not selected,
> then it will still fail in kernel compilation.

Matthew's patch is in.
Please send me an additional patch for the additionanl failure case.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center