On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:11:52PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Kim Phillips wrote:
> >On Tue, 8 May 2007 00:04:14 +0300
> >Ismail Dönmez <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>drivers/net/Kconfig:2279:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'UCC_GETH'
> >>refers to undefined symbol 'UCC_FAST'
> >looks like this introduces the error:
> >commit 7d776cb596994219584257eb5956b87628e5deaf
> >Author: Timur Tabi <[email protected]>
> >Date: Mon Mar 12 15:40:27 2007 -0500
> > [POWERPC] QE: automatically select QE options
>
> I have a dilemma, so I need help fixing this bug.
>
> This particular patch is necessary because without it, selecting support for
> the QE is too complicated.
>
> Background: The QUICC Engine (QE) is a microcontroller on some Freescale CPUs
> that can mimic a wide variety of devices. It has multiple controllers (called
> UCCs), and each one can be an ethernet device, or a UART, or an HDLC thingy,
> etc. There's a QE library and a bunch of other support code in the
> arch/powerpc directory, so the QE is a powerpc-specific device. However, all
> of the drivers that use it are located in drivers/xxx.
>
> This isn't a new problem. The common solution is to define some intermediate
> Kconfig option, like UCC_FAST_TEMP in the driver's Kconfig. Selecting UCC_FAST
> will then also set UCC_FAST_TEMP. The device driver then depends on
> UCC_FAST_TEMP.
>
> There's also a UCC_SLOW option with the same problem.
>
> The dillema is that there is no single device driver class that depends on
> UCC_FAST. Currently, there's only one that uses UCC_FAST: the ucc_geth driver.
> But I'm also working on a UART driver.
>
> So my question is: in which Kconfig do I define "UCC_FAST_TEMP" and
> "UCC_SLOW_TEMP"? At first I thought, just put it in drivers/Kconfig, but that
> Kconfig does nothing but including other Kconfigs. I believe that if I submit
> a patch that adds "UCC_FAST_TEMP" and "UCC_SLOW_TEMP" to drivers/Kconfig, it
> will be rejected. Either that, or I'll spend six weeks trying to persuade
> everyone that it's a good idea.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this?
That does seem like a reasonable suggestion, and one that
would probably work well with the other similar problems
that have been introduced sice 2.6.21.
drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig:170:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'KEYBOARD_ATARI' refer to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'
drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig:102:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'MOUSE_ATARI' refer to undefined symbol 'ATARI_KBD_CORE'
Which seem to be introduced by:
commit c04cb856e20a8bf68762d60737b84328c1ab5900
Author: Michael Schmitz <[email protected]>
Date: Tue May 1 22:32:38 2007 +0200
m68k: Atari keyboard and mouse support.
Atari keyboard and mouse support.
(reformating and Kconfig fixes by Roman Zippel)
Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
drivers/macintosh/Kconfig:112:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'PMAC_APM_EMU' refer to undefined symbol 'SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION'
Which seems to have been introduced by:
commit b302887854d6f0c6f9fc3f1080535e7c1bd53134
Author: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Mar 20 05:18:02 2007 +1100
[POWERPC] apm_emu: Use generic apm-emulation
This patch removes a huge amount of code that is now in common code
in drivers/char/apm-emulation.c
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
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