Re: new SGI TIOCX driver in *-mm driver model locking broken

From: Bruce Losure
Date: Sat Apr 02 2005 - 09:16:46 EST


On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Paul Jackson wrote:

> Bruce - a related issue that fell out of the previous problem. I
> disabled SGI_TIOCX, with
>
> # CONFIG_SGI_TIOCX is not set
>
> and now 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 doesn't build SN2 because SGI_MBCS is still
> enabled in my .config, even after doing 'make oldconfig':
>
> CONFIG_SGI_MBCS=m
>
...
> and indeed there are many tiocx references in drivers/char/mbcs.c.
>
> I'm not a CONFIG wizard, but I would suspect that there should be
> some sort of dependency in Kconfig, of SGI_MBCS on SGI_TIOCX, so
> that I couldn't ask for this bogus config (MBCS on, TIOCX off).
>

I'll try to figure out how to make that dependency and submit a patch.

-Bruce

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