Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the mfd tree

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon May 21 2012 - 05:54:36 EST


On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:19:32AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > include/linux/mfd/abx500/ab8500-sysctrl.h:#endif /* CONFIG_AB8500_CORE */
>
> > drivers/mfd/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_AB8500_CORE) += ab8500-core.o ab8500-sysctrl.o

> So somewhere along the line an X86 config is selecting CONFIG_AB8500_CORE when it shouldn't.

> I can't see anything relevant in my tree. I'll try to pull yours as have a look.

Since there's no dependencies which would stop it being selected
anything like allyesconfig or randconfig might enable it. In general
it's normal to allow this in order to make it easier to build test
things like subsystem wide changes.
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