[Nouveau] [PATCH nouveau 09/11] drm: export some variable and functions to resue the PM functions

[Thierry Reding]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:18:34AM +0800, Vince Hsu wrote:
> Hi Emil,
> 
> On 12/30/2014 10:34 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> >On 23/12/14 10:40, Vince Hsu wrote:
> >>This patch adds some checks in the suspend/resume functions to distinguish
> >>the dGPU and mobile GPU and exports some variables/functions so that the
> >>nouveau platform device can reuse them.
> >>
> >Hi Vince,
> >
> >Afaiu one needs to export a symbol as it's used by another module or
> >subsystem. With the follow up two patches you are not doing either one,
> >so I'd assume that you can just omit the EXPORT_* changes.
> The nouveau platform device driver is built as another module -
> nouveau_platform.ko. :)

I'd like to hear the opinion of the nouveau people and Alex, but I'd
very much prefer if nouveau_platform.o was simply linked into the
nouveau.ko module. I don't see any good reason to keep it separate.

Something like the attached patch (untested) ought to do it.

Thierry
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diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Kconfig
index 40afc69a3778..5ab13e7939db 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Kconfig
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ config DRM_NOUVEAU
 	  Choose this option for open-source NVIDIA support.
 
 config NOUVEAU_PLATFORM_DRIVER
-	tristate "Nouveau (NVIDIA) SoC GPUs"
+	bool "Nouveau (NVIDIA) SoC GPUs"
 	depends on DRM_NOUVEAU && ARCH_TEGRA
 	default y
 	help
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Makefile
index ea40cd653c7c..13acf90c11c8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Makefile
@@ -394,8 +394,6 @@ nouveau-$(CONFIG_ACPI) += nouveau_acpi.o
 endif
 nouveau-$(CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT) += nouveau_backlight.o
 nouveau-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) += nouveau_debugfs.o
+nouveau-$(CONFIG_NOUVEAU_PLATFORM_DRIVER) += nouveau_platform.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU)+= nouveau.o
-
-# platform driver
-obj-$(CONFIG_NOUVEAU_PLATFORM_DRIVER) += nouveau_platform.o
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