linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390/console: enable dummy console for vt

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Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:26:16 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Farhan Ali <alifm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@...il.com>,
        Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>, Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/console: enable dummy console for vt

Hi Christian,

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Christian Borntraeger
<borntraeger@...ibm.com> wrote:
> To enable the virtual terminal layer with virtio-gpu, we need to
> provide the dummy console. This console is hidden behind CONFIG_IOMEM
> via the graphics support. Instead of fully enabling the graphic
> drivers lets just provide a Kconfig option for the dummy console.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> ---
> New version: instead of moving around the graphic and console stuff,
> let's just keep an s390 specific variant of CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE
>  arch/s390/Kconfig | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
> index cbe1d978693a..a69690f616f3 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
> @@ -952,6 +952,11 @@ config S390_HYPFS_FS
>
>  source "arch/s390/kvm/Kconfig"
>
> +config DUMMY_CONSOLE
> +       bool
> +       depends on VT
> +       default y
> +
>  config S390_GUEST
>         def_bool y
>         prompt "s390 support for virtio devices"

Really?

You already have your own copy of HAS_IOMEM, which makes it hard for
people to track which one applies where.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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