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From: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: "sameo@linux.intel.com" <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	"broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com" 
	<broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-next@vger.kernel.org" <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: fix modular builds of rc5t583 regulator support
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:24:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8BC20A.2090105@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334549301-32114-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

On Monday 16 April 2012 09:38 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The combination of commit 1b1247dd75aa5cf5fae54a3bec7280046e9c7957
>
>      "mfd: Add support for RICOH PMIC RC5T583"
>
> and commit 6ffc3270210efa2bea526953a142ffc908f5bd86
>
>      "regulator: Add support for RICOH PMIC RC5T583 regulator"
>
> are causing the i386 allmodconfig builds to fail with this:
>
>    ERROR: "rc5t583_update" [drivers/regulator/rc5t583-regulator.ko] undefined!
>    ERROR: "rc5t583_set_bits" [drivers/regulator/rc5t583-regulator.ko] undefined!
>    ERROR: "rc5t583_clear_bits" [drivers/regulator/rc5t583-regulator.ko] undefined!
>    ERROR: "rc5t583_read" [drivers/regulator/rc5t583-regulator.ko] undefined!
>
> and this:
>
>    ERROR: "rc5t583_ext_power_req_config" [drivers/regulator/rc5t583-regulator.ko] undefined!
>
> For the 1st four, make the simple ops static inline, instead of
> polluting the namespace with trivial exports.  For the last one,
> add an EXPORT_SYMBOL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> ---
>
> [ alternately, make REGULATOR_RC5T583 bool instead of tristate? ]

Why not export all require symbol from mfd core.
I am sending the patch to exporting all required apis. Please review.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-16  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-16  4:08 [PATCH] mfd: fix modular builds of rc5t583 regulator support Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-16  6:54 ` Laxman Dewangan [this message]
2012-04-16 14:12   ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-16 14:02     ` Laxman Dewangan
2012-04-16 19:26     ` Samuel Ortiz

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