From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Cc: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, sameo@linux.intel.com,
myungjoo.ham@samsung.com, kyungmin.park@samsung.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] extcon: Remove CONFIG_EXTCON_MODULE config to fix build break
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:36:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120712153626.GD17365@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342067547-6276-1-git-send-email-cw00.choi@samsung.com>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:32:27PM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> This patch modify 'Kconfig' of EXTCON Subsystem to support either
> active or inactive of EXTCON Subsystem. The various subsystem refer
> to EXTCON subsystem for controlling external connector, so core class
> of EXTCON should be included in kernel image. If EXTCON subsystem is
> builded with MODULE, other subsystem have build break because of
> linking the core class of EXTCON.
Then something else is wrong, as the extcon_class code should be able to
be built as a module. Don't load up systems with kernel code that they
don't need (think of distro kernels that have to build everything.)
So no, please fix the real problem here, I will not take this patch,
sorry.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-12 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-12 4:32 [PATCH] extcon: Remove CONFIG_EXTCON_MODULE config to fix build break Chanwoo Choi
2012-07-12 15:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-07-12 23:45 ` Chanwoo Choi
2012-07-12 16:16 ` Mark Brown
2012-07-12 23:46 ` Chanwoo Choi
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