Re: [GIT PULL] Backlight for v6.1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 5:44 AM Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>    - Add support for MediaTek MT6370 Backlight

Hmm. This new driver has a

        depends on MFD_MT6370

but there is no such symbol anywhere.

It turns out the same is true of the MT6370 regulator driver that was
added during the previous merge window.

I do see that MFD_MT6370 in linux-next, but I don't see any pull
request for this, and now that I started looking I do see that we had
this already in 6.0.

I do *not* believe that it's ok to randomly take "drivers" that depend
on functionality that hasn't even been merged yet, and that are
basically just dead code but hidden away this non-obvious way.

I've pulled this, but I want to just state that this is bad, bad, bad.
If it has dependencies that aren't met, it damn well shouldn't be sent
upstream in a form where upstream can't even build test the thing.

                   Linus