Re: linux-next: Tree for July 4 (misc/pti)

[Randy Dunlap]

On 07/07/11 09:34, J Freyensee wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 09:32 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:29:59 -0700 J Freyensee wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/07/2011 08:14 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:45:41 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:09:52 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Changes since 20110701:
>>>>> when CONFIG_PCI is not enabled:
>>>>>
>>>>> drivers/misc/pti.c:410: error: implicit declaration of function
>>>>> 'pci_release_region'
>>>>> drivers/misc/pti.c:859: error: implicit declaration of function
>>>>> 'pci_request_region'
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Stubs for these 2 functions could be added to include/linux/pci.h,
>>>>> but it would
>>>>> make more sense to me just to make the driver depend on PCI since
>>>>> it seems to rely
>>>>> on so many PCI functions.  or are the PCI pieces optional?
>>>> ping.  still a problem in linux-next 20110706.
>>> Thanks for the ping.
>>>
>>> Is there something you need me to do or look at?
>>>
>>> For Intel-Atom architectures, the MIPI PTI module does sit on the PCI
>>> bus.  It's very much dependent upon the PCI bus for working
>>> functionality and it's not optional.  So yes, it makes sense for the
>>> driver to depend on PCI to be there and if PCI is not enabled on the
>>> system, don't build the pti driver.
>>>
>>> Maybe it's a Kconfig dependency?
>> Yes, please send/merge a patch that adds
>>     depends on PCI
>> to "config INTEL_MID_PCI".
> 
> And just for confirmation, you want me to base this patch on the
> linux-next git tree, correct?

Yes, please.

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