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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	gregkh@suse.de, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for June 21 (staging/easycap)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:09:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100623220952.GB18158@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C224D26.1020307@oracle.com>

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:06:30AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:00:49AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:00:56 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Changes since 20100618:
> >>
> >> When CONFIG_USB is not enabled:
> >>
> >> ERROR: "usb_kill_urb" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_deregister_dev" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "video_register_device" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_deregister" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "video_unregister_device" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_set_interface" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_register_dev" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_control_msg" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_submit_urb" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_get_dev" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_find_interface" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_register_driver" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_free_urb" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "usb_alloc_urb" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >>
> >>
> >> Adding "depends on USB" to EASYCAP is a good start.
> >> After that and enabling CONFIG_USB, build of easycap gets:
> >>
> >> ERROR: "video_register_device" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >> ERROR: "video_unregister_device" [drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.ko] undefined!
> >>
> >> because there is no media/video support enabled.  Also no SOUND enabled,
> >> so I expect there to be build errors associated with sound also, meaning that
> >> the Kconfig file should probably modified with something like
> >>
> >> config EASYCAP
> >> +	depends on USB && VIDEO_DEV && SND
> >>
> >>
> >> This is something that the driver author should know the answer to and submit a
> >> patch for.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> > 
> > You are right, care to make up a patch for this?
> 
> No thanks, please see my last statement above.
> IOW, I want the driver developer (not you) to act responsibly on this.

Ok, I'm working with them right now on this.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-23 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-21  7:00 linux-next: Tree for June 21 Stephen Rothwell
2010-06-21 16:00 ` linux-next: Tree for June 21 (staging/easycap) Randy Dunlap
2010-06-22 22:36   ` Greg KH
2010-06-23 18:06     ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-23 22:09       ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-06-22  5:25 ` -next June 21: WARNING: at include/linux/tty.h Sachin Sant
2010-06-23  6:55   ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-06-23  7:32     ` Arnd Bergmann

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