linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Kconfig changes to enable Graphics Support for S390

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdW7jR2Oa6dsameR76FLhSnX+kZ7jXqpfQC+oHy_uaMJaQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:41:09 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Farhan Ali <alifm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Kconfig changes to enable Graphics Support for S390

Hi Farhan,

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Farhan Ali <alifm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> This series of patches are in preparation for enabling an additional
> tty and console for a S390 KVM guest using a virtio-gpu device[1].
> One of the steps to do this would be to enable CONFIG_VT for S390,
> and this would also require the dummy console (CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE).
>
> Patch 1 enables the "Graphics support" menu which is
> needed to enable dummy console, since the VT layer needs it.
>
> Patch 2 fixes a Kconfig dependency issue for opencores
> framebuffer devices. This issue was exposed by the previous
> patch.
>
> Thanks
> Farhan
>
>
> [1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg04184.html
>
> Farhan Ali (2):
>   Kconfig : Remove HAS_IOMEM dependency for Graphics support
>   fbdev: Kconfig: Add HAS_IOMEM dependency for FB_OPENCORES
>
>  drivers/video/Kconfig       | 1 -
>  drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Shouldn't the order of your two patches be inverted, to avoid patch 1
introducing
build breakage fixed by patch 2?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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