Re: CONFIG_NLS=m resulting in undefined reference toutf16s_to_utf8s causing build failure

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:23:55 -0500 (EST)
Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So there's no other ACPI code that depends on this function?  I'd hate
> > to make PCI depend on NLS, so assuming ACPI doesn't need it (in which
> > case the select or depend should be there), I guess it should be pulled
> > into a common file that will always be included.
> 
> No, nothing in the ACPI code uses utf16s_to_utf8s.
> 
> I don't know anything about NLS, but it appears to be
> something that file systems (befs, cifs, fat, hfs, isofs, jfs, etc)
> use to to support native languages.
> 
> BTW. I don't understand why pci-label.o appears twice above.
> It used to be just the 2nd one, that depends on CONFIG_DMI.

Ok, I'll drop this patch for now then since I haven't seen a fix yet
and need to get Linus the rest of the changes.

Thanks,
Jesse
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