From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750742AbWGKNMO (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:12:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750744AbWGKNMO (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:12:14 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.180]:25645 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750742AbWGKNMN (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:12:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RaWgsH6/kWHumJgs9wJZRJmxH3lkQa3umuu5PSEMAaUkKclxDtyAKO29seGcJ4GSTE0vO5ZWEqn/Y2HGzJwzWSsD4bkOr5B079vhZO2uLn7v13XOrBbLgR/a1oE0OlbSZnz4/R2AgNO1cGzxOtzy98XQHPEWU5WkTlBj+ffNN5s= Message-ID: <44B3A3A5.5030208@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:12:05 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Reuther CC: Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: Depmod errors on 2.6.17.4/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm1 References: <200607100833.00461.mreuther@umich.edu> <200607102327.38426.mreuther@umich.edu> <44B34BBA.4010806@gmail.com> <200607110720.54119.mreuther@umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <200607110720.54119.mreuther@umich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matt Reuther wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 02:56 am, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >> Matt Reuther wrote: >>> On Monday 10 July 2006 11:58 am, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >>>> Matt Reuther wrote: >>> I ran 'make menuconfig' and I got the same warnings. Perhaps CONFIG_FB >>> needs to be part of the 'selects' line for any option that selects the >>> backlight support. I think the USB Apple Cinema display support, which I >>> set as modular, might have selected backlight. I don't need framebuffer >>> support, so I have that shut off. Here are the depmod warnings once >>> again: >> Yes, that's the culprit. I've been thinking for some time to eliminate >> the framebuffer dependency from lcd/backlight. Can you try the patch I >> sent in another thread? >> >> Tony > > OK. I will give that a shot, probably this evening. > > Shouldn't kconfig recursively figure out dependencies for stuff like this? 'select' doesn't. So does 'depends on'. Anyway, I consider it wasteful to also compile in fb when backlight/lcd is the only one needed. So try instead the other patch (Statically link the framebuffer notification functions). > > I turned on Apple Cinema support without turning on the framebuffer, but > Cinema needed backlight, which needed framebuffer. I can see kconfig turning > on backlight, but not checking to see what backlight needed. Yes, known problem with select. > > There might be similar issues with snd-miro, which seems to want stuff in > snd_cs4231, which I think I have shut off. > > Thanks for your help. I try out your patch later on today, when I can get back > to my computer. > Thanks for the report too. Tony