On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 11:41 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 06:25:44PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 11:34 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > Please use the advertised e-mail addresses for maintainers. > > > Expand, please? I took your address from the commit that Robert pointed > > out. > > You're better off with MAINTAINERS - several people advertise and use > non-work e-mail addresses but sign off with a work one. > > > > I doubt many people are actually building them as modules except for > > > compile testing or with another reason for the kernel to be tainted. > > > In a multi-platform config I think this will now be the *normal* state, > > as the dependent drivers should be modules. > > The point is that I rather doubt anyone working on the drivers cares so > long as they build in modular configurations. > > > I'm still failing to see *how* that fix works, anyway. Seems like a > > workaround for some other problem. > > Could you be more specific as to what you believe the problem that > exists is? You mentioned that the kernel would be tainted but that > doesn't seem like a not working thing... The problem explained in the commit message for commit 3f1a91aa25579ba5e7268a47a73d2a83e4802c62. imx-pcm-{dma,fiq}.o are exporting various symbols used by snd-soc-{fsl,imx}-ssi.o. Obviously, a module can use symbols exported from both built-in and modular code. And yet for some reason this didn't work when the exports were built-in and did work when they were built as modules. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates
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