[PATCH 0/3] Maverick ti-omap4, Modularize syslink drivers

[Bryan Wu]

On 06/30/2010 03:25 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Bryan,
>
> TI is interested in modularizing some of the syslink drivers. The first 2
> patches are required before that can be done. Please have a look to make
> sure its the right thing to do. I assume the right way to get everything loaded is to add
> notify_ducatidriver to /etc/modules.
>

Sebjan, will you confirm this request? IIRC, you mentioned we need built-in 
syslink driver before. And if we modularize it, does TI notice this failure 
which Tim fixed in this patchset?

> There is also a wicked symbol reference dependency between 2 modules that you ought to have a look at:
>
> (maverick-armel)root at tyler:/home/rtg/kern/maverick/armel/junk# depmod -b `pwd` 2.6.34-901-omap4
> WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.34-901-omap4/kernel/drivers/dsp/syslink/multicore_ipc/syslink_ipc.ko ignored, due to loop
> WARNING: Loop detected: /home/rtg/kern/maverick/armel/junk/lib/modules/2.6.34-901-omap4/kernel/drivers/dsp/syslink/ipu_pm/syslink_ipu_pm.ko needs syslink_ipc.ko which needs syslink_ipu_pm.ko again!
> WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.34-901-omap4/kernel/drivers/dsp/syslink/ipu_pm/syslink_ipu_pm.ko ignored, due to loop
>

That's weird. I will take a look.

> Anyways, try this out on your hardware.
>

Sorry, I still don't have the hardware. But I built the kernel for testing:
http://people.canonical.com/~roc/kernel/syslink/

Orga and Lee, could you please help this?

Thanks,
-Bryan