From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [linux-pm] linux-next: Tree for May 6 (acpi: PM=n) Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 16:38:57 -0700 Message-ID: <4BE35311.7030502@oracle.com> References: <20100506151502.f97afe54.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100506080538.b566f50e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20100506133215.f5dc579a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Morris Cc: Len Brown , Stephen Rothwell , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Mimi Zohar , Rajiv Andrade List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On 05/06/10 16:27, James Morris wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010, Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> On Thu, 06 May 2010 16:26:13 -0400 (EDT) Len Brown wrote: >> >>>> When CONFIG_PM is not set: >>>> >>>> drivers/built-in.o: In function `acpi_init': >>>> bus.c:(.init.text+0x2d84): undefined reference to `pm_flags' >>>> bus.c:(.init.text+0x2d91): undefined reference to `pm_flags' >>> >>> CONFIG_ACPI depends on CONFIG_PM, >>> so acpi/bus.c should not be compiled for CONFIG_PM=n >>> >>> Hmm, is is somebody doing something strange, like "select ACPI" >>> without guaranteeing that all of ACPI's dependencies are satisfied? >> >> Oh, thanks for the clue. >> >> That would be a patch that I commented on and was ignored, >> but James Morris merged it anyway. Now it should be dropped. >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/4/379 > > You weren't ignored. Mimi responded and mentioned a subsequent patch, > after which, there was no further discussion. OK. But merging a known bad patch doesn't make much sense to me. > I've reverted: > > b89e66e1e396f7b5436af154e58209320cc08aed > "TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal" > > a674fa46c79ffa37995bd1c8e4daa2b3be5a95ae > "ima: remove ACPI dependency" > Thanks. > > Note: any further ACPI-related changes here should have acks from > linux-acpi folk. -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***