Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/pl111: Remove reverse dependency on DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC

From: Archit Taneja <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:44:47 +0530

On Tuesday 20 February 2018 03:59 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <[email-masked]>
> 
> DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC is a user-visible symbol. Selecting it can cause unmet
> direct dependencies such as this (on i386, randconfig):
> 
> 	warning: (DRM_PL111) selects DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC which has unmet direct dependencies (HAS_IOMEM && DRM && DRM_BRIDGE && OF)
> 
> This is because DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC depends on OF while DRM_PL111 does not.
> It does indirectly depend on OF via the ARM and ARM64 dependencies, but
> since it can also be enabled under COMPILE_TEST, randconfig can find a
> case where DRM_PL111 is selected without pulling in OF and not meeting
> the dependency for DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC.
> 
> Since select is "heavy handed", DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC is going to be enabled
> regardless of the above warning and causes the following build error:
> 
> 	../drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/dumb-vga-dac.c: In function 'dumb_vga_probe':
> 	../drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/dumb-vga-dac.c:207:13: error: 'struct drm_bridge' has no member named 'of_node'
> 	  vga->bridge.of_node = pdev->dev.of_node;
> 
> See Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt, "reverse dependencies".

+Linus.

I guess this needs to go in drm-misc-fixes once it is updated to
4.16-rc2.

Thanks,
Archit

> 
> Fixes: 49f81d80ab84 ("drm/pl111: Support handling bridge timings")
> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Archit Taneja <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eric Anholt <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <[email-masked]>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig
> index 82cb3e60ddc8..e5e2abd66491 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig
> @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ config DRM_PL111
>   	select DRM_GEM_CMA_HELPER
>   	select DRM_BRIDGE
>   	select DRM_PANEL_BRIDGE
> -	select DRM_DUMB_VGA_DAC
>   	select VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING if FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE
>   	help
>   	  Choose this option for DRM support for the PL111 CLCD controller.
> 
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