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From: Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: me@felipebalbi.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	Hiroshi DOYU <hiroshi.doyu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mailbox_mach dependency problem
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 10:13:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100502071354.GA2360@gandalf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w2y94a0d4531005011608kda24768ep87897ec46b39641e@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 02:08:58AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 05:47:57PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> The easiest solution would be to make mailbox_mach built-in when
> >> mailbox is configured, however, mailbox_mach needs mailbox to be
> >> loaded.
> >
> > generally platform_device instantiation isn't compiled as a module. The
> > patch below should probably help but I didn't test it.
> 
> Yeah, but as I said above... that doesn't work:
> 
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/built-in.o: In function `omap2_mbox_probe':
> /data/public/dev/omap/linux-omap/arch/arm/mach-omap2/mailbox.c:389:
> undefined reference to `omap_mbox_register'
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/built-in.o: In function `omap2_mbox_remove':
> /data/public/dev/omap/linux-omap/arch/arm/mach-omap2/mailbox.c:439:
> undefined reference to `omap_mbox_unregister'

now I see the problem. You shouldn't put that kind of stuff on the
driver. The driver can be built as a module but the device will probably
be built-in. You'll need a more intrusive change to fix that, I guess.

-- 
balbi

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-02  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-01 14:47 mailbox_mach dependency problem Felipe Contreras
2010-05-01 17:33 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-05-01 23:08   ` Felipe Contreras
2010-05-02  7:13     ` Felipe Balbi [this message]
2010-05-02 12:57       ` Felipe Contreras
2010-05-02 15:59         ` Felipe Balbi
2010-05-03  0:16           ` Felipe Contreras

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