[PATCH 5/7] omapfb: omapfb_dss.h: add stubs to build with COMPILE_TEST && DRM_OMAP

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Monday, April 23, 2018 10:55:57 AM Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:47:28 +0200
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com> escreveu:
> 
> > On Friday, April 20, 2018 01:42:51 PM Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > Add stubs for omapfb_dss.h, in the case it is included by
> > > some driver when CONFIG_FB_OMAP2 is not defined, with can
> > > happen on ARM when DRM_OMAP is not 'n'.
> > > 
> > > That allows building such driver(s) with COMPILE_TEST.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at s-opensource.com>  
> > 
> > This patch should be dropped (together with patch #6/7) as it was
> > superseded by a better solution suggested by Laurent:
> > 
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10325193/
> > 
> > ACK-ed by Tomi:
> > 
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg171918.html
> > 
> > and already merged by you (commit 7378f1149884 "media: omap2:
> > omapfb: allow building it with COMPILE_TEST")..
> 
> I "ressurected" this patch due to patch 6/7.
> 
> The problem with the solution already acked/merged is that
> it works *only* if you don't try to build for ARM.
> 
> At the moment you want to build a FB_OMAP2-dependent driver
> on ARM with allyesc onfig, DRM_OMAP will be true, and FB_OMAP2
> will be disabled:
> 
> 	menuconfig FB_OMAP2
>         	tristate "OMAP2+ frame buffer support"
> 	        depends on FB
>         	depends on DRM_OMAP = n
> 
> One solution might be to change the depends on to:
>         	depends on (DRM_OMAP = n || COMPILE_TEST)
> 
> But someone pointed me that the above check was added to avoid building
> duplicated symbols. So, the above would cause build failures.
> 
> So, in order to build for ARM with DRM_OMAP selected (allyesconfig,
> allmodconfig), we have the following alternatives:
> 
> 	1) apply patch 5/7;
> 	2) make sure that FB_OMAP2 and DRM_OMAP won't declare the
> 	   same non-static symbols;
> 	3) redesign FB_OMAP2 to work with DRM_OMAP built.
> 
> I suspect that (1) is easier.

I agree.

You can merge this patch through your tree with:

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie at samsung.com>

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics