linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] video: logo: LOGO should depend on FB

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:35:57 +0200
From:   Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
Cc:     Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: logo: LOGO should depend on FB_CORE i.s.o. FB

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 09:53:16PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> 
> >> Yes. I meant to move drivers/video/logo/ to drivers/fbdev/core/logo and to
> >> source its Kconfig from drivers/fbdev/core/Kconfig, since it now depends
> >> on FB_CORE.
> >
> > No, please rather leave it where it is. There's no code dependencies to 
> > the fbdev core; it merely depends on the Kconfig token.
> >
> 
> Sure, fine by me. But I disagree that there's merely a Kconfig dependency.
> The include/linux/linux_logo.h header declares both fb_find_logo() and
> fb_append_extra_logo().
> 
> The fb_find_logo() function is defined in drivers/video/logo.c while the
> fb_append_extra_logo() is in drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c, even though
> only arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c uses fb_append_extra_logo().
> 
> So there's a relationship already between logo and fbdev/core, that's why
> I wondered if would make sense to also move drivers/video/logo.c to have
> both functions in there.
Or as I also suggested on irc - to pull out all the logo stuff from
fbmem and put it in video/logo/
With a bit of refactoring to make it obvious this is logo stuff and
maybe avoid some of the ifdeffery in the code of the users.

	Sam