linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] dummycon: only build module if there are users

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Message-ID: <9fb4e2f9-fa28-4dc2-b4db-6f7594ddc5ae@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 02:46:11 +0100
From: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] dummycon: only build module if there are users

On 2/25/25 17:44, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> Dummycon is used as a fallback conswitchp for vgacon and fbcon
> in the VT code, and there are no references to it if all three
> are disabled, so just leave it out of the kernel image for
> configurations without those.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>   drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 3 +--
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)


whole series applied to fbdev git tree.

Thanks!
Helge