From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
"Steven Honeyman" <stevenhoneyman@gmail.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Jean Delvare" <jdelvare@suse.de>,
"Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
"Jochen Eisinger" <jochen@penguin-breeder.org>,
"Gabriele Mazzotta" <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: Allow to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver without /proc/i8k
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 17:55:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55174D7B.8070401@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427582640.3377.0.camel@tiscali.nl>
On 03/28/2015 03:44 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Guenter Roeck schreef op za 28-03-2015 om 15:20 [-0700]:
>> Maybe that is the plan, but it is not what is happening.
>> I8K selects SENSORS_DELL_SMM, so a boolean I8K forces SENSORS_DELL_SMM
>> to be built into the kernel.
>>
>> What you suggest would work if I8K would depend on SENSORS_DELL_SMM,
>> but then the symbols would not be backward-compatible.
>
> I haven't actually looked into this part of the patch, since as far as
> I'm concerned this patch is broken.
>
You mean beyond the "ON" and the above problem ? Can you elaborate ?
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-29 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-28 10:24 [PATCH 0/2] i8k.c => dell-smm-hwmon.c Pali Rohár
2015-03-28 10:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: Rename i8k driver to dell-smm-hwmon and move it to hwmon tree Pali Rohár
2015-03-28 14:31 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-28 10:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: Allow to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver without /proc/i8k Pali Rohár
2015-03-28 11:04 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-28 12:54 ` Steven Honeyman
2015-03-28 14:13 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-28 22:00 ` Pali Rohár
2015-03-28 22:20 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-28 22:44 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-29 0:55 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2015-03-30 8:01 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-28 21:55 ` Pali Rohár
2015-03-28 22:06 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-28 22:19 ` Steven Honeyman
2015-03-28 22:33 ` Pali Rohár
2015-03-30 7:44 ` Jean Delvare
2015-03-28 14:23 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-28 22:04 ` Pali Rohár
2015-03-29 12:57 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] i8k.c => dell-smm-hwmon.c Pali Rohár
2015-03-29 12:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] hwmon: Rename i8k driver to dell-smm-hwmon and move it to hwmon tree Pali Rohár
2015-03-29 12:57 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] hwmon: Allow to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver without /proc/i8k Pali Rohár
2015-04-28 12:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-29 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] hwmon: Rename i8k driver to dell-smm-hwmon and move it to hwmon tree Pali Rohár
2015-04-29 11:41 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] hwmon: Allow to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver without /proc/i8k Pali Rohár
2015-06-27 11:34 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-06-27 12:47 ` Pali Rohár
2015-06-27 12:55 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-06-27 13:01 ` Pali Rohár
2015-06-27 13:21 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-04-29 12:07 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] hwmon: Rename i8k driver to dell-smm-hwmon and move it to hwmon tree Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-31 3:32 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] i8k.c => dell-smm-hwmon.c Guenter Roeck
2015-03-31 13:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-09 14:02 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-21 13:30 ` Pali Rohár
2015-04-21 13:40 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-21 13:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-21 15:24 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-21 15:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-04-27 18:39 ` Pali Rohár
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