[PATCH 0/8] drm, fbdev: rework dependencies

Jani Nikula jani.nikula at linux.intel.com
Tue Apr 21 13:25:09 UTC 2020


On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> To clarify what I was aiming for with my mail: I'm not worried about
> fbdev here, I'm just worried that this will come back, and we'll grow
> select somewhere else until it's become a big & totally horrible mess.
> I think a lot of the backlight selects have also grown because of
> this, so this isn't just a one-off I think.
>
> If Arnd is happy to play "Kconfig select" whack-a-mole ever once in a
> while (and deal with the intermediate compile horrors while everyone
> upgrades) I'm ok with this landing. Just not terribly happy if the
> underlying issue isn't fixed.

And I'll keep ignoring the IS_REACHABLE() patches that make i915 build
with a config that should not exist. ;)

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center


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