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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>, "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] irqchip or mfd/tps65217: fix link error
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:31:17 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609141129440.6233@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160914084202.1032264-1-arnd@arndb.de>

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Building tps65217 as a loadable module (as done in allmodconfig)
> now fails after we started calling irq_set_parent():
> 
>   ERROR: "irq_set_parent" [drivers/mfd/tps65217.ko] undefined!
> 
> The two obvious workarounds are either to force the driver
> to be built-in, or to make that symbol exported to modules.
> 
> As it's not clear to me if either of them would be acceptable,
> I'm sending both of them here, please comment on which one
> you want to have, or whether the driver should handle this
> differently and not call irq_set_parent() at all.

The question is why it needs to call that. But if it's justified, then I'm
not opposed to export it.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-14  8:22 [PATCH] [RFC] irqchip or mfd/tps65217: fix link error Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-14  9:31 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2016-09-14 13:56   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-09-14 15:09     ` Marcin Niestroj

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