Re: [PATCH] drivers: move media after i2c

From: Jean Delvare
Date: Tue Apr 21 2009 - 05:01:42 EST


On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:22:38 +0200 (CEST), Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Currently drivers/media drivers are linked very early - directly after
> base, block, misc, and mfd and before ata, scsi, ide, input, firewire,
> usb, and i2c. This breaks static build of video4linux drivers, that use
> generic CPU i2c adapter drivers and the v4l2-subdev subsystem, because
> during video4linux probing the v4l2-subdev core requires a struct
> i2c_adapter context, which cannot be satisfied before the i2c subsystem is
> initialised. Moving drivers/media after drivers/i2c fixes this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> The best way to trigger action is by submitting a patch:-) So, let's see
> what comes out of it - on the one hand I don't see any reason why media
> has to be linked this early, and nobody was able to give me one yesterday
> as this problem has been discussed on linux-media, OTOH, maybe indeed it
> would be better to move i2c the whole way up above media, but that'd be
> much bigger of a change, I think.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
> index 2618a61..1266ead 100644
> --- a/drivers/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/Makefile
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_INTEL) += video/intelfb/
>
> obj-y += serial/
> obj-$(CONFIG_PARPORT) += parport/
> -obj-y += base/ block/ misc/ mfd/ media/
> +obj-y += base/ block/ misc/ mfd/
> obj-$(CONFIG_NUBUS) += nubus/
> obj-y += macintosh/
> obj-$(CONFIG_IDE) += ide/
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_GAMEPORT) += input/gameport/
> obj-$(CONFIG_INPUT) += input/
> obj-$(CONFIG_I2O) += message/
> obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_LIB) += rtc/
> -obj-y += i2c/
> +obj-y += i2c/ media/
> obj-$(CONFIG_W1) += w1/
> obj-$(CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY) += power/
> obj-$(CONFIG_HWMON) += hwmon/
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