Re: [PATCH] drm: arm-hdlcd: remove DMA_CMA select

[Thierry Reding]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The newly added DRM_HDLCD driver tries to select DMA_CMA, but that is
> not necessarily possible, as not all configurations contain HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS:
> 
> warning: (DRM_HDLCD) selects DMA_CMA which has unmet direct dependencies (HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS && CMA)
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `dma_alloc_from_contiguous':
> :(.text+0x1dee00): undefined reference to `cma_alloc'
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `dma_release_from_contiguous':
> :(.text+0x1dee24): undefined reference to `cma_release'
> 
> This removes the 'select' statement. It is not needed because CMA is meant
> to transparently change the behavior of dma_alloc_coherent to make it succeed
> for larger allocations, but there is no actual build-time dependency, and
> the driver can still work without CMA in many cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 1561e558334d ("drm: Add support for ARM's HDLCD controller.")
> ---
> Found on ARM randconfig builds with yesterday's linux-next

Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

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