[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] [v2] i915: fix backlight configuration issue

Arnd Bergmann arnd at kernel.org
Wed Oct 27 13:27:14 UTC 2021


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

The i915 driver can use the backlight subsystem as an option, and usually
selects it when CONFIG_ACPI is set. However it is possible to configure
a kernel with modular backlight classdev support and a built-in i915
driver, which leads to a linker error:

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.o: In function `intel_backlight_device_register':
intel_panel.c:(.text+0x2f58): undefined reference to `backlight_device_register'
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.o: In function `intel_backlight_device_unregister':
intel_panel.c:(.text+0x2fe4): undefined reference to `backlight_device_unregister'

Change i915 to just 'depends on' for both BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
and ACPI_VIDEO, which avoids a lot of the problems.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200108140227.3976563-1-arnd@arndb.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200417155553.675905-1-arnd@arndb.de/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
---
This change depends on cleaning up drivers/video/fbdev to no longer
'select' I2C and BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE, otherwise it causes
dependency loops.
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig
index 84b6fc70cbf5..f427e6d50d9b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ config DRM_I915
 	tristate "Intel 8xx/9xx/G3x/G4x/HD Graphics"
 	depends on DRM
 	depends on X86 && PCI
+	depends on ACPI_VIDEO || !ACPI
+	depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE || !BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
 	select INTEL_GTT
 	select INTERVAL_TREE
 	# we need shmfs for the swappable backing store, and in particular
@@ -16,10 +18,6 @@ config DRM_I915
 	select IRQ_WORK
 	# i915 depends on ACPI_VIDEO when ACPI is enabled
 	# but for select to work, need to select ACPI_VIDEO's dependencies, ick
-	select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE if ACPI
-	select INPUT if ACPI
-	select ACPI_VIDEO if ACPI
-	select ACPI_BUTTON if ACPI
 	select SYNC_FILE
 	select IOSF_MBI
 	select CRC32
-- 
2.29.2



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