[PATCH] depend on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE for more devices

[Karol Herbst]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 11:10 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 8:59 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:43 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:19 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:10 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > playing around a little bit with this, I think the original "select
> > > > > BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE" is fine. Atm we kind of have this weird mix of
> > > > > drivers selecting and others depending on it. We could of course convert
> > > > > everything over to depend, and break those cycling dependency issues with
> > > > > this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway this change on top of my initial patch is enough to make Kconfig
> > > > > happy and has the advantage of not having to mess with the deps of nouveau
> > > > > too much.
> > > >
> > > > Looks good to me. We'd probably want to make the BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
> > > > option itself 'default FB || DRM' though, to ensure that defconfigs
> > > > keep working.
> > > >
> > >
> > > okay cool. Will send out a proper updated patch series soonish.
> > >
> >
> > mhh, actually that breaks drivers selecting FB_BACKLIGHT as now
> > BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE might be disabled :(
>
> Are you sure? It should already be the case that any driver that selects
> FB_BACKLIGHT either 'depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE'
> or 'select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE'.
>

none of the fb drivers seem to do that.

> If you change all the 'select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE' to 'depends
> on', I don't see a problem with doing 'select FB_BACKLIGHT' from
> those.
>
> I have applied your patch to my randconfig tree and built a few dozen
> kernels, don't see any regressions so far, but will let it run over night.
>
>       Arnd
>