Re: [1/3] drm/tinydrm/Kconfig: Remove menuconfig DRM_TINYDRM

From: Noralf TrÃnnes
Date: Wed Oct 09 2019 - 08:48:28 EST




Den 09.10.2019 12.45, skrev Daniel Vetter:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 04:07:38PM +0200, Noralf TrÃnnes wrote:
>> Hi drm-misc maintainers,
>>
>> I have just applied a patch to drm-misc-next that as it turns out should
>> have been applied to -fixes for this -rc cycle.
>>
>> Should I cherry pick it to drm-misc-next-fixes?
>
> Yup, cherry pick and reference the commit that's already in -next (in case
> it creates conflicts down the road that reference makes the mess easier to
> understand).
>

I remembered that Maxime just sent out a fixes pull and the subject says
drm-misc-fixes. The prevous one he sent out was -next-fixes.
So it looks like I should cherry pick to drm-misc-fixes for it to show
up in 5.4?

Noralf.

>> (I know there's a flowchart in the docs but I've never really understood
>> it.)
>
> Usually bugfixes for kernel releases should land in drm-misc-next-fixes or
> drm-misc-fixes. But cherry-picking over in case of mistakes is ok too.
> -Daniel
>
>>
>> Noralf.
>>
>> Den 01.10.2019 15.45, skrev Jason Gunthorpe:
>>> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 03:28:46PM +0200, Noralf TrÃnnes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Den 01.10.2019 14.36, skrev Jason Gunthorpe:
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:51:30PM +0200, Noralf TrÃnnes wrote:
>>>>>> This makes the tiny drivers visible by default without having to enable a
>>>>>> knob.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Noralf TrÃnnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> to it once
>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile | 2 +-
>>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/tinydrm/Kconfig | 37 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
>>>>>> 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Bisection says this patch (28c47e16ea2a19adb47fe2c182cbd61cb854237c)
>>>>> breaks kconfig stuff in v5.4-rc by creating circular
>>>>> dependencies. Could someone send a -rc patch to fix this please?
>>>>>
>>>>> THINKPAD_ACPI (defined at drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:484), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on FB_SSD1307 (defined at drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:2259), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on FB (defined at drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig:12), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER (defined at drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:79), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on DRM_KMS_HELPER (defined at drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig:73), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on TINYDRM_REPAPER (defined at drivers/gpu/drm/tinydrm/Kconfig:51), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on THERMAL (defined at drivers/thermal/Kconfig:6), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on SENSORS_NPCM7XX (defined at drivers/hwmon/Kconfig:1285), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on HWMON (defined at drivers/hwmon/Kconfig:6), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on THINKPAD_ACPI (defined at drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:484), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on ACPI_VIDEO (defined at drivers/acpi/Kconfig:193), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on ACER_WMI (defined at drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:19), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE (defined at drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig:144), with definition...
>>>>> ...depends again on THINKPAD_ACPI (defined at drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:484)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Would this commit fix this by any chance:
>>>>
>>>> drm/tiny: Kconfig: Remove always-y THERMAL dep. from TINYDRM_REPAPER
>>>> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc/commit/?id=dfef959803c728c616ad29b008cd91b3446a993a
>>>
>>> Yes, thank you, can someone send this to -rc to unbreak 5.4?
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
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