Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Kconfig changes to enable Graphics Support for S390

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Jan 26 2018 - 08:41:20 EST


Hi Farhan,

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Farhan Ali <alifm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This series of patches are in preparation for enabling an additional
> tty and console for a S390 KVM guest using a virtio-gpu device[1].
> One of the steps to do this would be to enable CONFIG_VT for S390,
> and this would also require the dummy console (CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE).
>
> Patch 1 enables the "Graphics support" menu which is
> needed to enable dummy console, since the VT layer needs it.
>
> Patch 2 fixes a Kconfig dependency issue for opencores
> framebuffer devices. This issue was exposed by the previous
> patch.
>
> Thanks
> Farhan
>
>
> [1] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg04184.html
>
> Farhan Ali (2):
> Kconfig : Remove HAS_IOMEM dependency for Graphics support
> fbdev: Kconfig: Add HAS_IOMEM dependency for FB_OPENCORES
>
> drivers/video/Kconfig | 1 -
> drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Shouldn't the order of your two patches be inverted, to avoid patch 1
introducing
build breakage fixed by patch 2?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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