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

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:04 AM Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 TschalÃr 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 TschalÃr <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

Sorry, that should have read:

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

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry