Re: Linux 3.2-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Alessandro Suardi
<alessandro.suardi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dell laptop support (and I'd suspect other drivers using LED support)
>  doesn't build with undefined LED-related functions, as in:
>
> ERROR: "led_classdev_unregister" [drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.ko]
> undefined!
> ERROR: "led_classdev_register" [drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.ko] undefined!
> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>
> It's enough to configure NEW_LEDS (unneeded in 3.1.0) to allow the build to go
>  through; maybe NEW_LEDS should be auto-selected in Kconfig by drivers that
>  make use of led_classdev_* functions ?

Yeah, that sounds like the right fix. There are a lot of "select
NEW_LEDS" around already, but apparently not the Dell driver.

Matthew?

                 Linus
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