Re: [char-misc:char-misc-testing] warning

[Robin van der Gracht]

Hi Randy,

On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 09:34:04 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/01/16 09:02, Robin van der Gracht wrote:
> > Hi Tobias,
> > 
> > On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 16:33:03 +0100
> > Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello Robin,
> >>
> >> I'm afraid I can't help you with that. The series was done as a request
> >> by Daniel Vetter, see here for reference:
> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg113011.html  
> > So.. I should contact Daniel Vetter about this..?
> >    
> >> I don't have any nouveau platform here.  
> > 
> > Me neither, the warning is shown when invoking Kconfig. So when I use
> > the config file supplied on my previous email, and start a build or a
> > menuconfig on my (x86_64) system its showing.  
> 
> 
> The kconfig warning is in mainline now and it has nothing to do with the
> new HT16K33 driver.
> 
> How is nouveau supposed to provide backlight support?
> It selects FB_BACKLIGHT but FB_BACKLIGHT depends on FB, which is not
> enabled in the supplied .config file.

Yes, exactly!

I think that line should have been removed along with the other FB deps.

Regards,

-- 
Robin van der Gracht
Protonic Holland