Re: [gentoo-dev] 2.6.11-gentoo-r7: If USB core API (usbcore) is built-in, it conflicts with the rest of usb-dependent modules

[Greg KH]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 11:27:42PM +0200, Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro wrote:
> El mi?, 11-05-2005 a las 13:12 -0700, Greg KH escribi?:
> > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:10:46PM +0200, Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After some talk to gregkh, I've decided to send this message as it might
> > > give some light regarding the breakage of the USB modules when usbcore
> > > is built-in instead of compiled as module.
> > >
> > > Modules that are breaking with CONFIG_USB=y :
> > >
> > > - audio, bfusb, bcm203x, bpa10x, hci_usb, usblp, usb-midi, cdc_acm,
> > >    uhci-hcd, ohci-hcd, ehci-hcd, usb-storage...
> > >
> > > For those, the core API symbols that follow are missing as of the
> > > built-in selected option:
> >
> > This should work just fine, care to attach your .config?
>
> Attached is my .config for -hardened-r1 which is basically a gentoo
> sources without fbsplash patch and some security-related patches
> applied, from the Hardened Gentoo project.
>
> This one takes CONFIG_USB=m but no host controller drivers nor class
> drivers will be able to get registered (the case is getting even more
> strange...):

Well, can you duplicate this against a clean 2.6.12-rc4 or 2.6.11.8
kernel?  I don't trust the hardened gentoo kernel patches at all...

thanks,

greg k-h
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