Re: [patch, 2.6.26-rc2] dvb: drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/fdumpfirmware build error fix

[Johannes Stezenbach]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 06:41:40PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Sure. And without the patch you can simply add
> > - STANDALONE=y or
> > - DVB_AV7110_FIRMWARE=n
> > to your allrandom.config. ;-)
>  
> hm, you are right - i've added STANDALONE=y previously but it went 
> missing in action. So forget my patch, it was user error - the driver is 
> right in that it already depends on STANDALONE :-) I guess STANDALONE 
> should enable PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD as well to avoid such errors ...

If you do _build_ testing you don't care if the driver
won't work because of missing firmware. With STANDALONE=y
you exclude drivers from build testing.

Johannes
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