[PATCH 1/4] ACPI: fix ACPI_VIDEO dependencies

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 07:51:45 AM Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 02:26:52 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, March 17, 2014 03:46:44 PM Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare at suse.de>
> > > Subject: ACPI: fix ACPI_VIDEO dependencies
> > > 
> > > ACPI_VIDEO stopped depending on VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL over 3 years ago
> > > (see commit 677bd810, "ACPI video: remove output switching control".)
> > > So it's about time to remove the Kconfig dependency between these two
> > > options.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare at suse.de>
> > > Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang at intel.com>
> > > Cc: Len Brown <lenb at kernel.org>
> > > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
> > 
> > Do you want me to take this series?
> 
> If other maintainers are OK with it, yes, I think that would be the
> easiest way. Thanks for proposing. All these patches depend on each
> other and must be applied in the right order, so pushing them through
> different trees would be slow at best, and risky.

OK, I'll queue them up for 3.15 then, as I haven't seen any objections.

> Also, thinking about it, I wonder if the first 3 patches of the series
> could go to longterm kernel series? While they do not fix any build
> breakage nor run-time bug, without them everyone (on x86 at least) is
> forced to build dead code. This is kind of frustrating. They are simple
> and obvious enough that hopefully there won't be any objection.

I think it'll be best if you request the -stable people to pick
up those commits once they have reached the Linus' tree.

Thanks,
Rafael