From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg•org>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux•intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead•org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
dri-devel@lists•freedesktop.org, David Airlie <airlied@linux•ie>,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail•com>,
Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger•kernel.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux•intel.com>,
Sean Paul <sean@poorly•run>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] drm/drm_panel: Fix EXPORT of drm_panel_of_backlight() one more time
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:47:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191218104709.GA12412@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e2uylhi.fsf@intel.com>
Hi Jani.
> As I wrote in [1], this allows a configuration that builds and links,
> but is silently broken. You won't get backlight support in drm panel
> which would be a reasonable expectation with
> CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE=m.
Agreed - it needs to be improved. But right now we had to fix the build
breakage.
http://lore.kernel.org/r/1413580403-16225-1-git-send-email-jani.nikula@intel.com
is added to my TODO list.
May take a stamp on this over xmas.
Sam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-18 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-17 14:07 [PATCH v1 1/1] drm/drm_panel: Fix EXPORT of drm_panel_of_backlight() one more time Andy Shevchenko
2019-12-17 16:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-12-17 19:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2019-12-18 10:30 ` Jani Nikula
2019-12-18 10:47 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
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