Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:01:39 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [patch] dvb: build failure fix |
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 04:52:14PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:31:42 -0400 > mkrufky@linuxtv.org wrote: > > > > Are there actually reports from users running into this problem? > > No. > > Yet, the configuration may be valid. If you have a board with tda8290, it > _will_ need another chip, like tda827x. > > In the past, both tda8290 and tda827x were handled by the same driver, and > worked for analog only. > > So, IMO, this is a regression. >...
drivers/media/ is the part of the kernel with the most fragile kconfig constructs.
And we are talking about bringing a solution into -stable that has never and will never be in mainline.
A compile error in a configuration without practical relevance isn't a huge problem, and I'd vote for leaving -stable unchanged.
> Cheers, > Mauro
cu Adrian
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