linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/lima: Mark simple

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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:13:47 +0200
From: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
To: Qiang Yu <yuq825@...il.com>
Cc: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
	lima@...ts.freedesktop.org, maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com, tzimmermann@...e.de, 
	airlied@...il.com, daniel@...ll.ch, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Philip Muller <philm@...jaro.org>, Oliver Smith <ollieparanoid@...tmarketos.org>, 
	Daniel Smith <danct12@...root.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/lima: Mark simple_ondemand governor as softdep

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 04:01:26PM GMT, Qiang Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 12:33 PM Qiang Yu <yuq825@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > I see the problem that initramfs need to build a module dependency chain,
> > but lima does not call any symbol from simpleondemand governor module.
> >
> > softdep module seems to be optional while our dependency is hard one,
> > can we just add MODULE_INFO(depends, _depends), or create a new
> > macro called MODULE_DEPENDS()?
> >
> This doesn't work on my side because depmod generates modules.dep
> by symbol lookup instead of modinfo section. So softdep may be our only
> choice to add module dependency manually. I can accept the softdep
> first, then make PM optional later.

It's still super fragile, and depends on the user not changing the
policy. It should be solved in some other, more robust way.

Maxime

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