linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]"drm: change DRM_MIPI_DSI module type from "bool" to "tristate".

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Date:   Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:28:31 +0300
From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Sun\, Jing A" <jing.a.sun@...el.com>,
        "airlied\@linux.ie" <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        "Vetter\, Daniel" <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        a.hajda@...sung.com, Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]"drm: change DRM_MIPI_DSI module type from "bool" to "tristate".

On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, "Sun, Jing A" <jing.a.sun@...el.com> wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
>
> Please kindly review my patch as below. It's based on the mainline branch.
>
> From b401009f79883ac5e9d41525c9d54b800ece2e22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jing SUN <jing.a.sun@...el.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:06:54 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] drm: change DRM_MIPI_DSI module type from "bool" to
>  "tristate".
>
> A lot of drm driver modules, which are designed
> to be loadable, select DRM_MIPI_DSI, while that
> being "bool" prevents those from getting reloaded.

You're missing some lists and people from distribution, added now.

See the discussion starting at [1]. I don't know if anything has
happened since then. Takashi?

BR,
Jani.


[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/s5hh9bhvj7j.wl-tiwai@suse.de


>
> Signed-off-by: Jing SUN <jing.a.sun@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> index fc35731..67668a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ menuconfig DRM
>  	  (/dev/agpgart) support if it is available for your platform.
>  
>  config DRM_MIPI_DSI
> -	bool
> +	tristate
>  	depends on DRM
>  
>  config DRM_DP_AUX_CHARDEV

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center