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

[Maxime Ripard]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 04:01:26PM GMT, Qiang Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 12:33 PM Qiang Yu <yuq825 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I see the problem that initramfs need to build a module dependency chain,
> > but lima does not call any symbol from simpleondemand governor module.
> >
> > softdep module seems to be optional while our dependency is hard one,
> > can we just add MODULE_INFO(depends, _depends), or create a new
> > macro called MODULE_DEPENDS()?
> >
> This doesn't work on my side because depmod generates modules.dep
> by symbol lookup instead of modinfo section. So softdep may be our only
> choice to add module dependency manually. I can accept the softdep
> first, then make PM optional later.

It's still super fragile, and depends on the user not changing the
policy. It should be solved in some other, more robust way.

Maxime
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