Bug 50881

Summary: [TRIVIAL]Error compiling nouveau inside the kernel (not as a module) when ACPI is a module
Product: Drivers Reporter: Rogério Brito (rbrito)
Component: Video(DRI - non Intel)Assignee: drivers_video-dri
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: alan, rbrito
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 3.7.0-rc6 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: compilation error message
kernel config corresponding to the error.

Description Rogério Brito 2012-11-22 04:48:11 UTC
Created attachment 86961 [details]
compilation error message

Hi.

I am in the process of debugging some issues in ACPI on a notebook and I tried to compile nouveau inside the kernel while keeping some ACPI options as modules. Unfortunately, it didn't work and I got an error during compilation (see attachment).

I suspect (but didn't check, as it is very painful to compile kernels on this notebook) that it is because CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m.

Is my suspicion incorrect?


Thanks,

Rogério Brito.
Comment 1 Rogério Brito 2012-11-22 04:49:43 UTC
Created attachment 86971 [details]
kernel config corresponding to the error.

Here is the config that I used.

Please, note that I've seen this error since, at least, kernels 3.3 or so.
Comment 2 Alan 2012-11-22 14:44:47 UTC
Looks to be the case:  there is a missing depend line I think