Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] drm/bridge: sil_sii8620: make remote control optional.

[Dmitry Torokhov]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 11:39:56PM -0700, Life is hard, and then you die wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 03:50:49PM +0200, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> > On 19.04.2019 10:19, Ronald Tschalär wrote:
> > > commit d6abe6df706c (drm/bridge: sil_sii8620: do not have a dependency
> > > of RC_CORE) changed the driver to select both RC_CORE and INPUT.
> > > However, this causes problems with other drivers, in particular an input
> > > driver that depends on MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI (to be added in a separate
> > > commit):
> > > 
> > >   drivers/clk/Kconfig:9:error: recursive dependency detected!
> > >   drivers/clk/Kconfig:9:        symbol COMMON_CLK is selected by MFD_INTEL_LPSS
> > >   drivers/mfd/Kconfig:566:      symbol MFD_INTEL_LPSS is selected by MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI
> > >   drivers/mfd/Kconfig:580:      symbol MFD_INTEL_LPSS_PCI is implied by KEYBOARD_APPLESPI
> > >   drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig:73:    symbol KEYBOARD_APPLESPI depends on INPUT
> > >   drivers/input/Kconfig:8:      symbol INPUT is selected by DRM_SIL_SII8620
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig:83:    symbol DRM_SIL_SII8620 depends on DRM_BRIDGE
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/Kconfig:1:     symbol DRM_BRIDGE is selected by DRM_PL111
> > >   drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/Kconfig:1:      symbol DRM_PL111 depends on COMMON_CLK
> > > 
> > > According to the docs and general consensus, select should only be used
> > > for non user-visible symbols, but both RC_CORE and INPUT are
> > > user-visible. Furthermore almost all other references to INPUT
> > > throughout the kernel config are depends, not selects. For this reason
> > > the first part of this change reverts commit d6abe6df706c.
> > > 
> > > In order to address the original reason for commit d6abe6df706c, namely
> > > that not all boards use the remote controller functionality and hence
> > > should not need have to deal with RC_CORE, the second part of this
> > > change now makes the remote control support in the driver optional and
> > > contingent on RC_CORE being defined. And with this the hard dependency
> > > on INPUT also goes away as that is only needed if RC_CORE is defined
> > > (which in turn already depends on INPUT).
> > > 
> > > CC: Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > CC: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > CC: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Ronald Tschalär <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 
> > Apparently this patch was not queued to kernel yet. If there are no
> > objections I will queue it via drm-misc-next tree tomorrow.
> 
> If this patch set won't be queued for 5.3 then I guess that would be a
> good idea.
> 
> But may I ask what is preventing this patch set from being queued for
> upstream, so I can try and fix whatever the issue is?

As I mentioned in my pull request to Linux I will be picking up the
Apple keyboard driver for this merge window even though it was not in
next (my fault).

I created and immutable branch for this change if you'd like to pull it
in so we do not duplicate commit and risk the conflicts (but I believe
git should resolve it either way).

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git id/5.2-sil_sii8620-rc-optional

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry