Re: [PATCH] kernel: irq: fix build failure

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Oct 20 2016 - 08:58:18 EST


On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:

> On Thursday 06 October 2016 11:06 PM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > The allmodconfig build of powerpc is failing with the error:
> > ERROR: ".irq_set_parent" [drivers/mfd/tps65217.ko] undefined!
> >
> > export the symbol to fix the failure.
>
> Hi Thomas,
> powerpc and arm allmodconfig builds still fails with the same error.
> Build logs of next-20161010 are at:
> arm at https://travis-ci.org/sudipm-mukherjee/parport/jobs/166321467
> powerpc at https://travis-ci.org/sudipm-mukherjee/parport/jobs/166321473

I know. This is under discussion with the driver folks as we are not going
to blindly export stuff just because someone slapped a irq_set_parent()
into the code w/o knowing why.

Thanks,

tglx