linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm: Avoid circular dependencies for CONFIG

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Message-ID: <YLiXYa8OG9hlaEE5@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:   Thu, 3 Jun 2021 10:48:33 +0200
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org>,
        Emma Anholt <emma@...olt.net>, Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
        Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>,
        Sharat Masetty <smasetty@...eaurora.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm: Avoid circular dependencies for CONFIG_FB

On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 02:52:50PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> When cleaning up other drm config dependencies, it is too easy to create
> larger problems. Instead, mark CONFIG_FB as a "depends":
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:74:error: recursive dependency detected!
> 
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8P3a3jUQs6c5tESSNMbqfuymewj9FhqRizyHcfOXf8Rgy-nA@mail.gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

I rebased this one for -next and applied all three patches to
drm-misc-next.
-Daniel

> ---
>  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 3c16bd1afd87..90891284ccec 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ config DRM_KMS_HELPER
>  config DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER
>  	bool
>  	depends on DRM_KMS_HELPER
> -	select FB
> +	depends on FB
>  	select FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE if !EXPERT
>  	select FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY if FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
>  	select FB_SYS_FOPS
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch