On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:03:19PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Sex, 2007-06-22 às 15:51 +0200, Jan Engelhardt escreveu: > > On Jun 22 2007 15:46, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I am not sure whether it is related or not > > >But if you select USB as module but build your v4l_usb driver > > >into the kernel you also get compile errors. > > >Attached is a patch which will prevent this by changing the menuconfig > > >from bool to tristate. > > > > A config option that is not referenced in the Makefile... > > should it really be a tristate? In my opinion, changing it > > to tristate is just a workaround, but I don't know kconfig > > well enough to make bool Do The Right Thing in these situations myself :( > > If USB is built as a module, the V4L USB modules should also be built as > a module. Otherwise, you will have compile errors, since some required > symbols on the drivers won't be linked into the kernel. >
Sure. And the patch should prevent user selection of such a broken kernel configuration. Regards, Andreas -- Operating | AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG, System | Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Germany Research | Register Court Dresden: HRA 4896, General Partner authorized Center | to represent: AMD Saxony LLC (Wilmington, Delaware, US) (OSRC) | General Manager of AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
