[PATCH] drm/bridge: Select DRM_KMS_HELPER for DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE

[Neil Armstrong]

On 18/03/2024 14:41, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 12:52:10PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:38:04 +0100, Luca Weiss wrote:
>>>> Since the kconfig symbol of DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE is only adding
>>>> bridge/panel.o to drm_kms_helper object, we need to select
>>>> DRM_KMS_HELPER to make sure the file is actually getting built.
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise with certain defconfigs e.g. devm_drm_of_get_bridge will not
>>>> be properly available:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Thanks, Applied to https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel.git (drm-misc-fixes)
>>>
>>> [1/1] drm/bridge: Select DRM_KMS_HELPER for DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE
>>>        https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel/-/commit/e3f18b0dd1db242791afbc3bd173026163ce0ccc
>>
>> With my kernel config, e3f18b0dd1db ("drm/bridge: Select DRM_KMS_HELPER
>> for DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE") leads to:
>>
>> WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for DRM_KMS_HELPER
>>    Depends on [m]: HAS_IOMEM [=y] && DRM [=m]
> ...
> 
> All the defconfigs in drm-rerere also seem to fail here.
> 
> Neil, are you using some weird .config, or did you not actually
> build test this before pushing?


It definitely built fine, but my config test is not extensive and went through it,
I'll send a revert patch ASAP.

Neil

> 
> PS. the drm-rerere defconfigs seem pretty outdated (eg. missing
>      tons of panel drivers). Would be good if someone could update
>      those to provide better coverage
>