Re: [PATCH] depend on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE for more devices

[Karol Herbst]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:19 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:10 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > playing around a little bit with this, I think the original "select
> > BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE" is fine. Atm we kind of have this weird mix of
> > drivers selecting and others depending on it. We could of course convert
> > everything over to depend, and break those cycling dependency issues with
> > this.
> >
> > Anyway this change on top of my initial patch is enough to make Kconfig
> > happy and has the advantage of not having to mess with the deps of nouveau
> > too much.
>
> Looks good to me. We'd probably want to make the BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
> option itself 'default FB || DRM' though, to ensure that defconfigs
> keep working.
>

okay cool. Will send out a proper updated patch series soonish.

>       Arnd
>