linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 01/24] console/dummycon: Remove bogus depends on from DUMMY

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Date:   Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:44:43 -0500
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 01/24] console/dummycon: Remove bogus depends on from DUMMY_CONSOLE

Since commit [1] consolidated console configuration in
drivers/video/console, DUMMY_CONSOLE has always been enabled, since the
dependency is always satisfied.

There is no point in trying to allow it to be configured out, since
(a) it's tiny, and (b) if VT_CONSOLE is enabled, we must have a working
console driver by the time con_init(vt.c) runs, and only dummycon is
guaranteed to work (vgacon may be configured in, but that doesn't mean
we have a VGA device).

So just remove the fake dependency.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit?id=31d2a7d36d6989c714b792ec00358ada24c039e7

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
---
 drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
index c10e17fb9a9a..70c10ea1c38b 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ config SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE

 config DUMMY_CONSOLE
 	bool
-	depends on VGA_CONSOLE!=y || SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE!=y 
 	default y

 config DUMMY_CONSOLE_COLUMNS
-- 
2.24.1