[PATCH] drm/lima: Mark simple_ondemand governor as softdep

[Dragan Simic]

Lima DRM driver uses devfreq to perform DVFS, while using simple_ondemand
devfreq governor by default.  This causes driver initialization to fail on
boot when simple_ondemand governor isn't built into the kernel statically,
as a result of the missing module dependency and, consequently, the required
governor module not being included in the initial ramdisk.  Thus, let's mark
simple_ondemand governor as a softdep for Lima, to have its kernel module
included in the initial ramdisk.

This is a rather longstanding issue that has forced distributions to build
devfreq governors statically into their kernels, [1][2] or may have forced
some users to introduce unnecessary workarounds.

Having simple_ondemand marked as a softdep for Lima may not resolve this
issue for all Linux distributions.  In particular, it will remain unresolved
for the distributions whose utilities for the initial ramdisk generation do
not handle the available softdep information [3] properly yet.  However, some
Linux distributions already handle softdeps properly while generating their
initial ramdisks, [4] and this is a prerequisite step in the right direction
for the distributions that don't handle them properly yet.

[1] https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/core/linux-pinephone/-/blob/6.7-megi/config?ref_type=heads#L5749
[2] https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/blob/7f64e287e7732c9eaa029653e73ca3d4ba1c8598/main/linux-postmarketos-allwinner/config-postmarketos-allwinner.aarch64#L4654
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/commit/?id=49d8e0b59052999de577ab732b719cfbeb89504d
[4] https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/commit/97ac4d37aae084a050be512f6d8f4489054668ad

Cc: Philip Muller <philm at manjaro.org>
Cc: Oliver Smith <ollieparanoid at postmarketos.org>
Cc: Daniel Smith <danct12 at disroot.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1996970773a3 ("drm/lima: Add optional devfreq and cooling device support")
Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic at manjaro.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c
index 739c865b556f..10bce18b7c31 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c
@@ -501,3 +501,4 @@ module_platform_driver(lima_platform_driver);
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Lima Project Developers");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Lima DRM Driver");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: governor_simpleondemand");