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From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next:als tree build failure
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:59:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B617C29.6010300@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100128084107.682db589@hyperion.delvare>

On 01/28/10 07:41, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:23:34 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Today's linux-next build (powerpc allnoconfig) failed like this:
>>
>> ld: drivers/i2c/chips/built-in.o: No such file: No such file or directory
>>
>> Caused by commit b75349f118718a435f2bb7b6e675572ecd591627 ("tsl2550: Move
>> form i2c/chips to als and update interfaces").  This removes the last
>> driver from drivers/i2c/chips/ .  Maybe it needs to remove the directory
>> completely and the references to it from drivers/i2c as well.
>>
>> I have reverted that commit for today.
> 
> My bad. I asked Jonathan to split the directory removal from the driver
> move for clarity. I didn't expect this to cause a build failure.
> 
> Jonathan, I guess that at least the drivers/i2c/Makefile part must be
> moved back to the tsl2550 driver move patch. I leave it to you whether
> you want to move all the rest back as well, or just that part.
> 
> Thanks Stephen for the heads up and sorry again for the breakage.
> 
Sorry from me as well.  It never occurred to me either that it might cause
a build failure.

It does make sense to keep these two steps separate.  Ah well, I guess any
work around would be a pretty terrible cludge.  I'll roll these two patches
back together and otherwise we will end up with something even less coherent.

Thanks,

Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-28 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-28  7:23 linux-next:als tree build failure Stephen Rothwell
2010-01-28  7:41 ` Jean Delvare
2010-01-28 11:59   ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]
2010-01-28 12:17     ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-01-28 12:33       ` Jonathan Cameron
2010-01-28 12:45         ` Jean Delvare

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