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

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Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:02:06 +0100
From:   Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:     Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/console: enable dummy console for vt



On 02/15/2018 12:57 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 15.02.2018 12:26, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I think I agree with Geert - let's better fix this in a proper way
> instead of doing hacks like this. I guess there will be other
> architectures in the future that might want to use the dummy console
> without CONFIG_IOMEM, so fixing this in drivers/video/ instead sounds
> better to me.

The question is, what is the proper fix?