[PATCH] drm/pl111: Remove reverse dependency on DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC

[Archit Taneja]

On Tuesday 20 February 2018 04:44 PM, Archit Taneja wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 20 February 2018 03:59 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
>>
>> DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC is a user-visible symbol. Selecting it can cause unmet
>> direct dependencies such as this (on i386, randconfig):
>>
>>     warning: (DRM_PL111) selects DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC which has unmet 
>> direct dependencies (HAS_IOMEM && DRM && DRM_BRIDGE && OF)
>>
>> This is because DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC depends on OF while DRM_PL111 does not.
>> It does indirectly depend on OF via the ARM and ARM64 dependencies, but
>> since it can also be enabled under COMPILE_TEST, randconfig can find a
>> case where DRM_PL111 is selected without pulling in OF and not meeting
>> the dependency for DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC.
>>
>> Since select is "heavy handed", DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC is going to be enabled
>> regardless of the above warning and causes the following build error:
>>
>>     ../drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/dumb-vga-dac.c: In function 
>> 'dumb_vga_probe':
>>     ../drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/dumb-vga-dac.c:207:13: error: 'struct 
>> drm_bridge' has no member named 'of_node'
>>       vga->bridge.of_node = pdev->dev.of_node;
>>
>> See Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt, "reverse dependencies".
> 
> +Linus.
> 
> I guess this needs to go in drm-misc-fixes once it is updated to
> 4.16-rc2.

Looks like this was headed for 4.17, it isn't a part of 4.16. Queued to 
drm-misc-next.

Thanks,
Archit

> 
> Thanks,
> Archit
> 
>>
>> Fixes: 49f81d80ab84 ("drm/pl111: Support handling bridge timings")
>> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
>> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
>> Cc: Archit Taneja <architt at codeaurora.org>
>> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig | 1 -
>>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig 
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig
>> index 82cb3e60ddc8..e5e2abd66491 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig
>> @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ config DRM_PL111
>>       select DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER
>>       select DRM_BRIDGE
>>       select DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE
>> -    select DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC
>>       select VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING if FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
>>       help
>>         Choose this option for DRM support for the PL111 CLCD controller.
>>
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