Re: [PATCH] depend on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE for more devices

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 8:59 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:43 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 4:19 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
>
> mhh, actually that breaks drivers selecting FB_BACKLIGHT as now
> BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE might be disabled :(

Are you sure? It should already be the case that any driver that selects
FB_BACKLIGHT either 'depends on BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE'
or 'select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE'.

If you change all the 'select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE' to 'depends
on', I don't see a problem with doing 'select FB_BACKLIGHT' from
those.

I have applied your patch to my randconfig tree and built a few dozen
kernels, don't see any regressions so far, but will let it run over night.

      Arnd