Re: linux-next: Tree for July 4 (misc/pti)

Randy Dunlap
2011-07-07T16:32:19Z

On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:29:59 -0700 J Freyensee wrote:

> On 07/07/2011 08:14 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:45:41 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:09:52 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Changes since 20110701:
> >>
> >> when CONFIG_PCI is not enabled:
> >>
> >> drivers/misc/pti.c:410: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_release_region'
> >> drivers/misc/pti.c:859: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_request_region'
> >>
> >>
> >> Stubs for these 2 functions could be added to include/linux/pci.h, but it would
> >> make more sense to me just to make the driver depend on PCI since it seems to rely
> >> on so many PCI functions. or are the PCI pieces optional?
> >
> > ping. still a problem in linux-next 20110706.
>
> Thanks for the ping.
>
> Is there something you need me to do or look at?
>
> For Intel-Atom architectures, the MIPI PTI module does sit on the PCI
> bus. It's very much dependent upon the PCI bus for working
> functionality and it's not optional. So yes, it makes sense for the
> driver to depend on PCI to be there and if PCI is not enabled on the
> system, don't build the pti driver.
>
> Maybe it's a Kconfig dependency?

Yes, please send/merge a patch that adds
depends on PCI
to "config INTEL_MID_PCI".

Thanks.
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