On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Ben Skeggs <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Alexandre Courbot <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Having the two modules separated causes various unneeded complications,
>> including having to export symbols accessed between the modules. Make
>> things simpler by compiling platform device support into nouveau.ko.
>> Platform device support remains optional and is only compiled on Tegra.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> Vince, with this you won't have to export new functions for PM. I ended
>> up writing it myself because I hit the same issue (nv_device() would now
>> need to be exported on Ben's master branch).
>>
>> Be careful that when compiling against a kernel, 
>> CONFIG_NOUVEAU_PLATFORM_DRIVER
>> now *must* be equal to 'y'. It is 'm' currently, so you will need to change 
>> it
>> from tristate to bool in the kernel's Kconfig. For this reason it might be 
>> good
>> to get this patch into -next quickly.
> I've got a huge chunk of churn (finally finished the "rename to nvidia
> names for stuff" thing) pending too which I want to get to Dave (ASAP,
> separately from my other pending work) to avoid having to keep fixing
> conflicts in the meantime :)
>
> So, if you guys both agree on the patch, I'll send it along early with those.

That would be just perfect.

Vince, do you have anything against this patch?
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