Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/3] Kconfig dependencies: acpi-video, backlight and thermal

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 03:53:09PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> It took me a while to figure this out properly, as I kept getting
> circular or missing dependencies with video drivers.
> 
> This set of three patches should simplify the situation a bit,
> mostly by cleaning up the dependencies around CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO.
> With all three patches applied, I no longer run into those related
> warnings. If everyone agrees on the general direction, I hope
> we can merge all three through the DRM tree.
> 
> I originally had another larger patch in the series to replace all
> of the 'select BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT; select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE'
> statements with 'depends on LCD_CLASS_DEVICE', that would clean
> it up some more, but it is also a more invasive change that we
> can do separately at some point.

Looks reasonable, but I think it'd be good to get Jani Nikula's explicit
ack on this, since he dugg around a lot in this area. And he's on vacation
this week.
-Daniel

> 
>        Arnd
> 
> Arnd Bergmann (3):
>   backlight: always select BACKLIGHT_LCD_SUPPORT for
>     BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
>   ACPI/DRM: rework ACPI_VIDEO Kconfig dependencies
>   drm/etnaviv: add thermal dependency
> 
>  drivers/acpi/Kconfig              |  7 +++++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/etnaviv/Kconfig   |  1 +
>  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/Kconfig    |  5 +----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig      |  7 +------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/Kconfig   | 10 ++--------
>  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig      |  9 ++++-----
>  drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/Kconfig |  1 +
>  7 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
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