[PATCH] drm: rcar_du: DRM_RCAR_DU optionally depends on RCAR_MIPI_DSI

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi,

On 11/3/22 04:53, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Kieran,
> 
> On 11/3/22 11:59, Kieran Bingham wrote:
>> Hi Randy,
>>
>> Quoting Randy Dunlap (2022-11-03 06:06:45)
>>> ping. I have verified (on linux-next-20221103) that this is still needed.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> On 10/18/22 11:18, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>> When CONFIG_DRM_RCAR_DU=y and CONFIG_DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI=m, calls
>>>> from the builtin driver to the mipi driver fail due to linker
>>>> errors.
>>>> Since the RCAR_MIPI_DSI driver is not always required, fix the
>>>> build error by making DRM_RCAR_DU optionally depend on the
>>>> RCAR_MIPI_DSI Kconfig symbol. This prevents the problematic
>>>> kconfig combination without requiring that RCAR_MIPI_DSI always
>>>> be enabled.
>>>>
>>>> aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_crtc.o: in function `rcar_du_crtc_atomic_enable':
>>>> rcar_du_crtc.c:(.text+0x3a18): undefined reference to `rcar_mipi_dsi_pclk_enable'
>>>> aarch64-linux-ld: drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/rcar_du_crtc.o: in function `rcar_du_crtc_atomic_disable':
>>>> rcar_du_crtc.c:(.text+0x47cc): undefined reference to `rcar_mipi_dsi_pclk_disable'
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 957fe62d7d15 ("drm: rcar-du: Fix DSI enable & disable sequence")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
>>>> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen+renesas at ideasonboard.com>
>>>> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas at ideasonboard.com>
>>>> Cc: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas at ideasonboard.com>
>>>> Cc: LUU HOAI <hoai.luu.ub at renesas.com>
>>>> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>>>> Cc: linux-renesas-soc at vger.kernel.org
>>>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied at gmail.com>
>>>> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig |    1 +
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff -- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rcar-du/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ config DRM_RCAR_DU
>>>>       depends on DRM && OF
>>>>       depends on ARM || ARM64
>>>>       depends on ARCH_RENESAS || COMPILE_TEST
>>>> +     depends on DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI || DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI=n
>>
>> Please forgive my ignorance, but I don't understand how this works.
>> Could you explain what this is doing please?
>>
>> I know you've explained above that it fixes it to optionally depend on
>> DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI ... but it's not making sense to me.
>>
>> To me - this is saying we depend on DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI being enabled, or
>> not being enabled ... ? Which is like saying if (0 || 1) ?
>>
>> I'm guessing I'm missing something obvious :-S

It's kconfig tristate symbols (y/n/m), not boolean. :)

> What this Kconfig expression is saying is that it depends on DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI=y
> if DRM_RCAR_DU=y and DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI=m if DRM_RCAR_DU=m. But that the it can
> also be satisfied if is not set DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI.
> 
> This is usually used to make sure that you don't end with a configuration where
> DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI=y and DRM_RCAR_DU=m or DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI=m and DRM_RCAR_DU=y.
> 
> Randy, I think that it's more idiomatic though to it express as following:
> 
> depends on DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI || !DRM_RCAR_MIPI_DSI

I count just over 200 of each idiom (but my grep strings could be
too crude). I guess that you want a v2 with that change?

Thanks.
-- 
~Randy