From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932977Ab2AEWme (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:42:34 -0500 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:60249 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932371Ab2AEWmd (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:42:33 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: Q/mmZIUiED02MF4EJ1xZXuEiekou7i2N/sxbwa4gBGe9 1325803352 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:39:33 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Fabio Estevam Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gwingerde@gmail.com, larry.finger@lwfinger.net, davem@davemloft.net, bhutchings@solarflare.com, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fabio Estevam Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: misc: Remove MISC_DEVICES config option Message-ID: <20120105223933.GA10268@kroah.com> References: <1325796541-11402-1-git-send-email-festevam@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1325796541-11402-1-git-send-email-festevam@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:49:01PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote: > MISC_DEVICES option alone does not select any kernel code and can cause dependency build warnings, such as: > > warning: (KS8851 && AX88796_93CX6 && RTL8180 && RTL8187 && ADM8211 && RT2400PCI && RT2500PCI && RT61PCI && RT2800PCI && R8187SE) selects EEPROM_93CX6 which has unmet direct dependencies (MISC_DEVICES) > > Remove MISC_DEVICES option so that any dependency on this symbol is avoided. Are you sure that this isn't getting confused with the drivers/char/misc.c interface instead of the "throw a bunch of randome drivers into drivers/misc/" issue? Why would anything ever want to select MISC_DEVICES? What happens if you just remove that select line from the Kconfig? thanks, greg k-h